Quotes About Happiness

Los placeres profundos son caóticos y destructivos. Y la felicidad de la paz es un disfraz del aburrimiento.

Paraíso de la tierra Cuyos mágicos jardines Con sus manos de jazmines Cultivó celeste hurí, La salud en tí se encierra En tí mora la alegría En tus sierras nace el dia Y arde el sol de amor por tí.

El mundo es jaula de locos, los más locos gozan más; mas son pocos.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his[her] intended purpose.

Nadidilidili ko na ang umaga ay nilalang upang ihanda sa pagtatamasa ng kasiyahan sa kinahapunan at ang gabi'y upang mangarap at magsaya sa mga alaalang pumupukaw ng damdamin. -Salome

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

I knew damn well that nobody's ever really happy, or happy on time, since happiness belongs to the past.

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

No matter how simple your life is as long as you're happy, then live with it....

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.