Quotes About Happiness

You can't find happiness; happiness finds you. We are completely passive in the act of our own contentment because it isn't an act. It's a result. For the first time in years, she was living an uncomplicated life, and happiness had resulted.

He was doing what he had always wanted to do: code games. And he was happy, in the moment as always, not thinking at all about what would come next. If he could be here working on games with enough money for food and shelter, that was good enough for him. As he told the other guys on one of his very first days, put him in a closet with a computer, a pizza, and some Diet Cokes, and he would be fine.

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

She looked toward the window, smiling away her life

Non c'è dispiacere più grande che ricordare la gioia passata nell'infelicità. 

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Life is full of misery and hardship, so grab your pleasures where you can.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.