Happiness Quotes

To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR.

~ Ryan North

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.

~ Geneen Roth

The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

~ Andrew Weil

Tatsuya: What you have right now won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know.

~ Ibuki Haneda

God bless Dunkin' Donuts.

~ Lauren Oliver

It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon. ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

~ Susan Sarandon

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

~ John Fowles

Le bonheur est cette danse où l'on s'approche et l'on s'écarte sans se perdre. Il est même fait des larmes des longues séparations à condition que viennent les retrouvailles.

~ Timothée De Fombelle

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

~ Jay Asher

A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

~ Chloe Rattray

People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

~ James Patrick Mcdonald

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

~ Claire Holden Rothman

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

~ Ani Difranco

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

~ Andrew Weil

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.

~ Steve Maraboli

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me?As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.

~ Mohsin Hamid

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.

~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

~ Kij Johnson

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

~ Jennifer O'neill

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

~ Graham Greene

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

~ Jules Renard

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

~ Deborah Day

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

~ Helen Keller

His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.

~ N.r. Walker

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

~ Ann Voskamp

Do you want to retire early rich or retire late poor? Cosmic Ordering answers the first question!

~ Stephen Richards

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

~ Luther Burbank

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

~ Jeanette Winterson

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

~ Haruki Murakami

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

~ Louisa May Alcott