Quotes About Happiness

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

To live is better than not to live. Even for a few hours, in the company of friends.

A spiritual joy is the greatest sign of the divine grace dwelling in a soul.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Yes, it is a truth that for a good man, honored, beloved, useful, with all around him that God ever gives to His children here; nay, with all that God could give him of earth, it would be " gain " to die. Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world than this is or can be.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions.