Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come. Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness.
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
I didn't understand this idea of a God who says, "You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I'm the best, and then I'll give you eternal happiness. If you won't, then you don't get it!" It seemed to be about ego. I can't see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
I want people to FEEL something. . . If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.