Quotes about Happiness

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live.

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...

I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.

Two people happy with themselves can be exceptionally happy together.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.