Quotes about Happiness

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

If I am married to Christ, the core of my present life is not personal happiness, but spiritual purity.

Jesus is not a vending machine that dispenses what we want to feel good about ourselves. He is the Holy One who comes to cleanse us, fill us, and change us. He does not do this according to our agendas. He will not serve our wayward needs. He loves us too much to merely make us happy. He comes to make us holy. There will be many occasions when he will not give us what we think we need, but rather, he will give us what he knows we need.

we all must remember that our relationships have been designed as workrooms for redemption, not shelters for human happiness.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.