I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating because that is the only way he can be happy, that is the only way he loves, that is the only way he sings, that's the only way he can be at all. Creation is his innermost nature, no why is needed.
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy. ' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments. '
Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.