Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy. And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Sensible people find nothing useless.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
