Happiness Quotes
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it’s like when you and someone else are right together. How simple it is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
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Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!
Ed Diener
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Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
George Zimmerman
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Alfred de Musset
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There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.
Barbara O'Neal
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For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Carolyn Wells
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
Eric Weiner
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
Estelle
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You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
Norodom Sihamoni
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
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So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.
Eric Weiner
