All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”

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

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”

“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

“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. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can’t hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that’s all.”

“Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“There you go…let it all slide out. Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears.”

“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means “ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue,” and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase “root beer float” without bursting into tears. 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.”

“Happy girls are the prettiest”

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”