Quotes about Happiness

I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.

I enjoy what I do so much. There's people out there who don't like what they do, but I'm fortunate. I have nothing to complain about.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?