Quotes About Happiness

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA

And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

But you know how women are.  They're not happy unless they're complaining about something.

It would always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. You couldn't ever guess who someone was by the way they looked because, good or bad, the way they looked was always just a costume or an act. It was Halloween everyday, for most people anyway, just to feel like they weren't alone, to belong, just to keep being happy maybe.

That's love for you. When it's good, it's magic. When it isn't, it just pees all in your soup.

También sabía ahora que el gran secreto de la felicidad es aceptar la vida, no controlarla.

I also now knew that agreeing to life is the great secret to happiness, not controlling life. Too

The way you take care of yourself is just as crucial a determinant of your future happiness as your savings account.

It's vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16

Azt, amikor a szellem széttöri a bilincseit, menekülést keres, és szabadságra vágyik. Ez tehát a boldogság, egyben azonban elszakadás a földi dolgoktól, s a legnagyobb bölcsesség is. Az igazi boldogság az éntÅ'l való megszabadulás, a szeretÅ'k boldogsága, akiket Platón mindenki közül a legboldogabbnak nevez.

Then you must wait, she said, and keep on saying to yourself: God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along;

you are so unhappy, because you know no one who can help you. Think what a comfort it is when the heart is heavy with grief to be able at any moment to go and tell everything to God, and pray Him for the help that no one else can give us. And He can help us and give us everything that will make us happy again.

Heidi, it's just as if we were in a high carriage and were going to drive straight into heaven.

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.

It is good to be on the mountain; body and soul get well there, and life becomes happy again.

are so happy, and they nod to us because they want us to be happy too. But then we must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that someday everything that we have loved will be given back to us.—

ahora sintiese una dicha muy grande al despertarse en su nueva morada, pensando en todas las cosas bonitas que había visto el día anterior y en lo que podría ver hoy

Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.