Quotes About Happiness

a gent gets his reward when he sees other people happy. As

I really began to feel that the young were beyond me. I often appeared to myself a deceiver. Why? I didn't want to undermine her belief that Tivoli surpassed anything I had ever seen anywhere and that an afternoon in Tivoli, for example, was happiness squared; but I just couldn't feel that way about it.

I can't have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form.

I took pleasure in every moment that was in any real sense pleasurable. I didn't turn somersaults, I didn't sing, but there were certain things that I, too, enjoyed.

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.

The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.

The motto on the front door says "Happiness happens when you get." The sign on the lesser-used back door counters "Happiness happens when you give.

Just as a happy child cannot mis-hug, the sincere heart cannot mis-pray.

Happiness is less an emotion and more a decision, a decision to bear with one another.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

Oversize and rude, fear is unwilling to share the heart with happiness. Happiness complies and leaves. Do you ever see the two together? Can one be happy and afraid at the same time? Clear thinking and afraid? Confident and afraid? Merciful and afraid? No.

A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace.

Happy are the unentitled! Expecting the applause of others is a fool's enterprise! Do yourself a favor and assume nothing. If you go unnoticed, you won't be surprised. If you are noticed, you can celebrate.

Answer: Your nights are long because you carry too much fear. I've been watching you. Why don't you give those fears to me? Stop trying to fix everyone (including your husband) and figure everything out. And I haven't heard you laugh in quite a while. Lighten up. I love it when you are happy. Remember, come to me when you are weary and tired. I can help you.

Begin with God. Celebrate God's goodness. "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!" (Phil. 4:4).

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It is the greatest of virtues.

Legalism leaches joy.

Jesus was happy and wants us to be the same.

Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy because of.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

Not happiness, perhaps, but something like New England itself—struggle, occasional triumph over adversity, above all the power to endure and to be renewed. For here the roses grow beside the granite.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there's a bedrock of truth, however hard. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant.