Quotes About Happiness

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

Imagine yourself being happy, unburdened, and filled with joy. That is how God wants you to be. 'Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about.' (1 Peter 5:7 NLT).

How come when I'm with you, life seems to whiz

When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.

We call that make their day. We look for as many ways as we can to create great memories. And we create great memories whenever we make someone's day.

El éxito depende de las decisiones que tomemos: escoger nuestra actitud, vivir la vida con alegría, estar presente con los otros y que la gente esté feliz de vernos.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

My two containers, my two soul friends, had come together. I could barely contain my joy. Life was intertwining in wonderful ways.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

When a man was hit hard enough for evacuation, he was usually very happy, and we were happy for him—he had a ticket out to the hospital, or even a ticket home—alive. "When a man was killed—he looked 'so peaceful.' His suffering was over.

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.

You do have choices about how you spend your time. Balancing what you need to do with what you want to do can lead to happiness and success.

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Heed the call. Take the leap. But do not go off half-cocked. Plan it out. Take that full day. Take more than one. Take as many as necessary to develop your plan. But do it, and then, execute it. You won't be sorry. You will be on your path to bliss.

Because I'm too old for tragedy. I like a nice happy ending too.

Bonhoeffer and Luther draw on Christ's paradox of gaining one's life by losing it. So we come to the ultimate paradox: by service—and ultimately, by sacrifice—we are free, we are happy, we live the good life. True freedom is only freedom in Christ. True freedom, as Luther points out, is found in serving others. Bonhoeffer echoes that notion.