Quotes About Happiness

When your aspiration is to lighten up, you begin to have a sense of humor. Your serious state of mind keeps getting popped. In addition to a sense of humor, a basic support for a joyful mind is curiosity, paying attention, taking an interest in the world around you. Happiness is not required, but being curious without a heavy judgmental attitude helps. If you are judgmental, you can even be curious about that.

Broadcasting House was in fact dedicated to the strangest project of the war, or of any war, that is, telling the truth. Without prompting, the BBC had decided that truth was more important than consolation, and, in the long run, would be more effective. And yet there was no guarantee of this. Truth ensures trust, but not victory, or even happiness.

After all, these people were born for joy, he thought.

Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him.

It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.

Os loucos são felizes, basta ver como se riem das coisas mais estúpidas que se possa imaginar. Riem felizes do voo de uma borboleta.

Ah,' Arthur cried out, 'I have never known one month of repose since I took up the crown. I have lost the key to contentment.

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Because the search for happiness can be like the search for your spectacles when they're sittin' on your

He smiled. 'They do not follow the

but unable to help himself, he said sulkily, "It's the smiling

Y al fin: feliz aquel que tiene sus lugares de duración; ya no será, aunque se haya trasladado para siempre a un país extraño, sin perspectivas de volver a su mundo, nadie a quien han expulsado de su patria.

Il verbo adatto alla gioia: cominciare.

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the species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus

Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it.

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn't hurt anyone, it's O.K. By this standard, God is not good it he lets us suffer. But by ancient standards, God might be good even though he lets us suffer, if he does it for the sake of the greater end of happiness, perfection of life and character and soul, that is, self.

the will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own ultimate happiness—and yet choose evil over good, choose what we know is not in our own best interests. We can choose misery over joy if our will, led by our passions, commands our mind to focus on the short-range pleasures and ignore the long-run miseries.

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.

No happiness on earth can be deeper than the happiness that comes from our willing and active submission to God's will even when he wills suffering.

For everything naturally desires good