Quotes About Happiness

Sometimes we wonder why we aren't happy, why we make sinful choices, why we feel distant from God. Often it's because we have small thoughts about God and magnified thoughts of ourselves, our wants, our rights, our accomplishments.

I now pronounce yo a mated pair," the cardinal said, clearly pleased with himself over the phrase. There was an expectant pause while everyone waited for the line that he'd clearly forgotten. "Better kiss her quick, wolfie," Jamie teased gently. Holgar swept Skye up in his arms, and she squealed with joy as they kissed.

The best things in life really are free. So, how many kittens do you want?

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

The grateful heart that springs forth in joy is not acquired in a moment; it is the fruit of a thousand choices.

High" net worth is a feeling of wholeness. In other words, I don't just want you to have more money, I want you to be free to create the life that makes you happy—whatever that means to you.

The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness. —Albert Camus

What caught me by surprise were his eyes. They were a rich, warm brown in color, glowing with a joyful light that seemed to come from within himself.

A vida é por vezes triste e muitas vezes aborrecida mas de vez em quando há groselhas no bolo.»

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

I do not dwell on could-bes. I pray for the best and do my part to create a happy life.

Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Men loved heels, the higher the better. They didn't care if a woman was miserable.

Sometimes it's quite enough simply to be happy.

they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

I smiled. Arthur was glowing like…if not a kid in a candy store, then one in a museum's gift store with a hundred-dollar voucher.

She has found delight in freedom from attachment

Contentment is a deep satisfaction with the will of God.

We often think contentment is something that happens to us, rather than something that we take pains to learn.

Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!" (Ps. 144:15).