Quotes About Happiness

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness - God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.

Biblical teaching called for cohesive families whose happiness was based on the bonding of one female and one male in a durable relationship of covenant fidelity in love, committed to protect the life and well-being of their offspring. Fatherless children were the strongest argument against hedonic sexual experimentation.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;No harp like my own could so cheerily play,And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Carlyle thought little of these Essays. "Wretched lives" is his best word for them when he is bilious and the world is all gloom; but when in another place he confesses that he was seldom happier than when writing them, we may take his condemnation as he did his bile, "with a drop of oil and a grain of salt.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

I think sometimes life can take over, it's good just to appreciate one another - have fun together, smile, laugh, shout, scream at each other for being naughty!

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

My childhood was great. We never had much but we were happy. I was a handful, though, and I did some naughty things.

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.