Quotes about Happiness

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard.

Lucia argued something similar. She gave as an example the Chihuahua, Marcelo, who lived eternally grateful in the present, accepting whatever might happen without worrying about any future misfortune that might add to all those he had previously encountered in his life as an abandoned dog. "Too

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.