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Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
Sep 10, 2025
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.
Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
Everything is as important as everything else.
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death
You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.
Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it.
I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.