What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believ...
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
The day of individual happiness has passed.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?
