Quotes About About Happiness

#1. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.

Saint Francis De Sales

#2. There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Debasish Mridha

#3. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. The beautiful thing about the law of attraction is that you can begin where you are, and you can begin to think, real thinking, and you can begin to generate within yourself a feeling tone of harmony and happiness. The law will begin to respond to that.

Michael Beckwith

#5. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#6. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William J. Bennett

#7. To be completely honest about your flaws is the only liberation from feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and external manipulation. Your happiness is only a change of conviction away.

Crystal Evans

#8. To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Mos Def

#9. There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

David Henry Hwang

#10. Life is not about destination, it is a journey of creation.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.

Willa Cather

#12. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

Dale Carnegie

#13. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Epictetus

#14. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Wayne W. Dyer

#15. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Dale Carnegie

#16. Here is what the scientific research is finding about happiness: we are wired to experience happiness, but we keep hitting the wrong buttons in our efforts to turn our happiness on.

Henry Cloud

#17. The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Deepak Chopra

#18. If You Want To Learn About LOVE,Happiness And Joy, Please Go To Your Childhood and Learn.

Sushil Singh

#19. It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Hilary Duff

#20. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.

Elisabeth Badinter

#21. There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else
that is, that it is not with you.

Robert Holden

#23. I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Donald Ray Pollock

#24. You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

Jo Nesbo

#25. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.

Paulo Coelho

#26. Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Claudette Colbert

#27. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Jeremy Bentham

#28. Dear today,
i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

Nina LaCour

#29. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.

Chip Rossetti

#30. We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.

Debasish Mridha

#31. The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright)

Bill Clinton

#32. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

Harold S. Kushner

#33. I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Alan Bennett

#34. saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life.

Annoymous

#35. Happiness is the only thing that matters in this life. Don't be cavalier about it. Fertilize it with attention and watch it grow.

D.S. Luca

#36. It's all about the smiles!

Emmy Swain

#37. When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Elif Batuman

#38. What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

Aldous Huxley

#39. It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.

Rush Limbaugh

#40. One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?

Terry Pratchett

#41. The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

Elizabeth McCracken

#42. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

Thomas S. Monson

#43. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

#44. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#45. Happiness is not about getting what you want--it is about wanting what you've got.

Michael Brodeur

#46. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

#47. Happiness is not about hiding the past, it's accepting today and making it last, You should not fear who you have become, have pride in yourself for all you have done. Stand tall and be proud to be who you are, Release your fears and brighten your star.

Kylie Abecca

#48. There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

John Kuypers

#49. If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

#50. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#51. I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
I know better now.

S.E. Hinton

#52. Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

Keke Palmer

#53. I guess that's the thing about riding on cloud nine - it can't last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

Hannah Harrington

#54. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Jim Fergus

#55. Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

John Bruna

#56. Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

Robert Holden

#57. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

#58. Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

Michael Beckwith

#59. I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.

Glen Hansard

#60. Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

George Bernard Shaw

#61. Whenever I met someone who seemed to know a lot about a subject, and who evinced, moreover, a certain happiness in his or her being, and if I were interested in the subject, I asked to be taught what they knew.

Alice Walker

#62. We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#63. Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

Peter Diamandis

#64. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

Jonathan Haidt

#65. When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

J.M. Barrie

#66. So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

Robert Breault

#67. To be happy a woman had to think hard, during long silent hours, about how to make each small step forward.

Fatema Mernissi

#68. As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#69. If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Rajneesh

#70. The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

Ariel Gore

#71. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde

#72. At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Daniel Goleman

#73. That's the thing about love, you have to get lost to find someone you can trust.

Debasish Mridha

#74. When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Dee Dee Artner

#75. So for decisions about happiness you essentially need at least both and probably even more than that, you probably also need to do analysis that doesn't involve yourself to get at the answer of what will make you happy in 10 years.

Sheena Iyengar

#76. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.

Debasish Mridha

#77. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.

Anonymous

#78. Few things come to shake us up and few things pass to teach us how to let go then many things come and remind us what it's all about. It's life and the only person who will control how you feel about all the guts and glory in its path is you.

Nikki Rowe

#79. Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.

Amanda Maciel

#80. Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her to move about with the silence and cloudiness of a spectre; for who likes to dwell in a haunted house?

John Angell James

#81. Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Richard Ford

#82. Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.

Gene Hill

#83. Every person has a right to be unhappy, to suffer in peace without someone else telling her that she is acting like a spoiled brat. Without a certain someone telling her constantly that her life is the stuff that everyone else dreams about. Happiness is not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing.

Suzanne Selfors

#84. What was there about the human condition that made us hold on to tragedy with such tenacity and easily forgo the happiness we could reach readily?

V.C. Andrews

#85. The greatest thing about dreams is they don't expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.

Casi McLean

#86. Life is about creating your own world, your own joy.
Life is not about living in someone else's world or playing with someone else's toy.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

Plato

#88. When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

Martin Scorsese

#89. There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

Amy Carmichael

#90. I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.

Stefan Sagmeister

#91. It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible.

Sharon Salzberg

#92.
And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ... It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.

Manuel Puig

#93. I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.

Lindsay Buroker

#94. Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Mickey Rooney

#95. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

P.D. James

#96. I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late." "What about Remy? What

Ruth Reichl

#97. The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

Dalai Lama XIV

#98. Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

#99. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#100. Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell