He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary. —Doris Lessing More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. —Eddie Cantor More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. —Immanuel Hermann Fichte More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life. —James Oppenheim More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. —Jean Houston More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. —John Scalzi More about this quote Tags: mistakes happiness marriage soul-mate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: relationships happiness marriage unhappiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. —Henrik Ibsen More about this quote Tags: peace happiness money joy loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: happiness permanence home separation houses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around. —James D. Watson More about this quote Tags: empathy children happiness childhood school milkshakes bullying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. —Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia More about this quote Tags: attention love relationships chance happiness marriage cruelty conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: optimism relationship happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email