Happiness Quotes - Page 158

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

Smiles are the soul's kisses.

Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking; the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!

Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

Some days are simply meant for playing.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good. The Lord has said, 'He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' (Matt. 10:39.) We lose our life by serving and lifting others. By so doing we experience the only true and lasting happiness. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.