Quotes about happiness
happiness live-life race
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier
happiness real feel-good
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. Matthew Quick
happiness may stuck
Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with. Marilyn vos Savant
happiness dog shameless
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature. Pablo Neruda
happiness laughter laughing
Laughter is the language of the soul.
happiness wise love-is
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him. Plato
happiness pain safety
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions. Martin Seligman
happiness mean pride
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.
happiness good-life signatures
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
happiness stars passion
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star. Laini Taylor
happiness fun want
I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word. Johnny Depp
happiness children educational
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up. John Updike
happiness joy firsts
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. John Suckling
happiness happy eternal-happiness
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill
happiness art mean
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
happiness joy christmas-love
A joy that's shared is a joy made double. John Ray
happiness depressing views
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature. John Ralston Saul
happiness heart aging
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart. Martin Luther
happiness success men
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education. Mark Steyn
happiness wisdom future
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman
happiness giving people
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
happiness luxury would-be
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
happiness great-happiness praiseworthy
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. Philip Sidney
happiness ideas mind
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy. Paulo Coelho
happiness wisdom divided
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
happiness thinking thanks
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks. Marlene Dietrich
happiness men inner-peace
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. Max Planck
happiness happy trouble
The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical Ruth Benedict
happiness happy last
This is my last race. I'm very happy. I'm done with skating. I'm very happy with what I've done and what I've got.
happiness whatever-it-takes glorious
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. Neil Gaiman
happiness political attention
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior
happiness winning giving
The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have. Myrtle Reed
happiness summer christian
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West