Quotes About Happiness

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You must do in life those things that most satisfy. Otherwise, what is it all for?

The world cannot satisfy the heart, because the heart is too large for the object.

You can't let the uncertainty of tomorrow interfere with the joy of today,

Success means nothing unless you have someone to share it with.

In effect, the richest countries have an efficiency problem: they are squandering consumption without transforming much of it into joy.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

As a general rule, in the long run of life, it will be found true that sanctified people are the happiest people on earth. They have solid comforts that the world can neither give nor take away.

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

Recordemos que los placeres para los que viven millones de personas difieren, quizá, en su concepto de lo que constituye el verdadero placer, pero todos coinciden en tratar de obtenerlo por sobre todas las cosas.

A sanctified person will try to do good in the world. He will try to lessen the sorrow and increase the happiness of all around him. He will strive to be like his Master, full of kindness and love to everyone – not in word only, by calling people "dear," but by deeds and actions and self-denying work, according as he has opportunity.

As a general rule, in the long run of life, it will be found true that sanctified people are the happiest people on earth

The great debt with God must be settled. The King must be upon His throne. Then, and not until then, will there be peace within. Without repentance, there cannot be true happiness. We must repent if we want to be happy.

The most miserable creature on earth is the man who has nothing to do. Work for the hands or work for the mind is absolutely essential to human happiness.

Real success is not visible. It has nothing to do with the size of your house, your batting average, or your bank account, or in our case, the number of medals you've managed to get. Those things are OK, granted. But success is how you feel every day. It's being satisfied with the day's work you've produced. It's feeling at ease with yourself when you go home at night.

then one day, the joy, the energy, and the feeling of accomplishment

Ah, those days... for many years afterwards their happiness haunted me. Sometimes, listening to music, I drift back and nothing has changed. The long end of summer. Day after day of warm weather, voices calling as night came on and lighted windows pricked the darkness and, at day-break, the murmur of corn and the warm smell of fields ripe for harvest. And being young.

If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians, and many more—the understanding that has recently been replaced by "pleasurable satisfaction." According to the ancients, happiness is a life well lived, a life of virtue and character, a life that manifests wisdom, kindness, and goodness.