Quotes on “happiness”

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.