Happiness And Sadness Quotes

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.