Quotes about Happiness

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

I'd rather be unhappy and know that God is with me, than be happy, comfortable and unsure of God's presence.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy fill His dwelling.

So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.

For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.