Quotes about Happiness

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude to General Omar Torrijos.

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.