Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.
All I want is all what my mother wanted for me when she raised me - to be happy. For that, I don't need to be in a relationship. I don't need to have a certain level of respect. I just want to care very much about what I do and be kind to everyone in the process. It's important that I can feel that. That's happiness.
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. . . Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.
Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy
Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
When we are happy, those around us will be happy, and in turn, those around them will also start to feel the same way. We always have to start with ourself, and the best place to start is to do what makes you feel joyful.
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.