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Quotes About Happiness

For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic. Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. His voice sounded smaller, much more human. Sometimes it makes you incredible sad. But at least you've faced it now. That's the only way to conquer me.
~ Rick Riordan
My children are so rarely happy. I...I would like to see you be an exception.
~ Rick Riordan
Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?
~ Rick Riordan
My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn't have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it's every god's dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor.
~ Rick Riordan
And if I was humming Happy Birthday and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?
~ Rick Riordan
This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.
~ Rick Riordan
Smile and joke, even when you don't feel like it. ESPECIALLY when you don't feel like it.
~ Rick Riordan
Leo whooped so loudly they probably heard him in China. "YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? Woooooooo!
~ Rick Riordan
It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.
~ Rick Riordan
Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?
~ Rick Riordan
The Fountain of Joy still reminds locals that life in Siena is good.
~ Rick Steves
God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
~ Rick Warren
If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.
~ Rick Warren
If you would like to increase the amount of happiness you experience in life, here is one of the secrets: learn to enjoy the successes and joys of others.
~ Rick Warren
here is the good news, the truth that will set you free: You don't need their approval to be happy! So let it go! Stop wasting emotional energy on something that is never going to happen and something that isn't necessary for you to be happy. They are miserable, but you don't have to be. There is no sane reason for both of you to be miserable!
~ Rick Warren
Worldly Christians look to God primarily for personal fulfillment. They are saved, but self-centered. They love to attend concerts and enrichment seminars, but you would never find them at a missions conference because they aren't interested. Their prayers focus on their own needs, blessings, and happiness. It's a "me-first" faith: How can God make my life more comfortable? They want to use God for their purposes instead of being used for his purposes.
~ Rick Warren
We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2
~ Rick Warren
Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
~ Rick Warren
Albert Schweitzer said, "The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
~ Rick Warren
He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it.
~ Rick Warren
Si no sabes cómo ser feliz con lo que tienes, nunca serás feliz con más.
~ Rick Warren
Live your life, Patrick said, dont endure it
~ Kate Atkinson
Live your life, Louise," Patrick said, "don't endure it.
~ Kate Atkinson
Aren't I happy?' Ursula puzzled. What do you think? Ursula didn't know. She wasn't sure that she had a yardstick against which to measure happiness or unhappiness. She had obscure memories of elation, of falling into darkness, but they belonged to that world of shadows and dreams that was ever-present and yet almost impossible to pin down.
~ Kate Atkinson