Quotes about Happiness

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.