Quotes About Happiness

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.

Life was good, he thought. They had eaten well. They had a firm plan of action, and he had a traveling companion whom he could tease anytime he liked.

Will, ik houd van je. Alyss … Hij was zich bewust van een vreemd gevoel, een gevoel dat hij al een hele tijd niet had gehad. Toen wist hij ineens wat het betekende en hij glimlachte. Hij was gelukkig.

Youth's the season made for joys,Love is then our duty.

before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, "The soul is healed by being with children." ...

the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

study found that those who attend church regularly tend to be happier and more satisfied with life than those who do not.

My happiness is like this sand: I let it run out of my hand.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

Wanita senang hatinya bila mempunyai teman yang dapat berbagi kesulitannya. Lelaki senang hatinya bila dapat memecahkan kesulitannya sendirian di guanya.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

The smile of God is victory.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Life is short..Live to the fullest..

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.