Happiness Quotes - 161 quotes

 Freedom is so hard and annoying and messy why do I want you to have it if the natural way of things is one person rules and everybody else follows why not just fall into the natural way and the reason is without freedom you will never know joy you will never have the full life that God meant you to have in the Declaration it says that God gave you certain rights among them the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we talk about happiness sometimes as if they want you to be happy like you just have a great date or you're just made a lot of money or something like that that's not the kind of happiness they were talking about that happiness comes and goes when sad things happen you'll be sad when happy things happen you'll be happy the kind of happiness that the founders were talking about is what the Greeks called eudaimonia means good spirit it really means human flourishing it's what Jesus called life in abundance that's what they wanted you to pursue they wanted you to pursue eudaimonia where does it come from well Aristotle said that it came from virtue that people did not experience eudaimonia until they had virtue and jesus said that virtue largely consists of loving God and loving your neighbor as you love yourself.
- Andrew Klavan
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 and all you got to do is think it through you can't have love if you're not free if you're not free to choose your love it's not love at the point of a sword you can't have virtue at the point of the sword you have to be able to choose it it's not charity when Elizabeth Warren takes this guy's money and gives it to this guy it's charity when you reach into your pocket and say I would have liked to go to the movies but here's five bucks go buy yourself a burger that's charity that hurts that's hard everything else is just degrading
- Andrew Klavan
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 We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to."
- Randy Pausch
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 We must give adequate attention to the doctrines of happiness—real happiness, infinite and eternal. They should be the objective of everything we teach in the Church and of everything we do.
- M. Russell Ballard
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 One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 “All advice to do things or not to do them is concerned with happiness, and with the things that make for or against it; whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.”

- Aristotle

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 “Evil destroys even itself, and if it is complete becomes unbearable.”

- Aristotle

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 There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 The Lord revealed that the purpose of it all is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” (Moses 1:39.) Ordinances and covenants were ordained to protect this power to generate life. When laws are obeyed, happiness follows, for “men are, that they might have joy.” (2 Ne. 2:25.)

- Boyd K. Packer

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 Ever and always there is the destroyer waiting to disturb and disrupt, to scatter abrasives into this marvelous system. His purpose is to rupture those circuits which interconnect the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual, or to cross-connect them in ways that never were intended. His purpose is to pollute that sacred fountain of life and to generate, if he can, unnatural affections. (See 2 Tim. 3:2–3.)

- Boyd K. Packer

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 The separate natures of man and woman were designed by the Father of us all to fulfill the purposes of the gospel plan.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 The well-being of the mother, the child, the family, the Church, indeed of all humanity depends upon protecting that process. The obligations of motherhood are never-ending. The addition of such duties as those which attend ordination to the priesthood would constitute an intrusion into, an interruption to, perhaps the avoidance of, that crucial contribution which only a mother can provide.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 The limitation of priesthood responsibilities to men is a tribute to the incomparable place of women in the plan of salvation.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 The prophet who said that “no success [in any field of endeavor] can compensate for failure in the home” (David O. McKay) did not exempt callings in the Church.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 Men and women have complementary, not competing, responsibilities. There is difference but not inequity. Intelligence and talent favor both of them. But in the woman’s part, she is not just equal to man; she is superior! She can do that which he can never do; not in all eternity can he do it. There are complementing rewards which are hers and hers alone.

- Boyd K. Packer

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 It should not disturb either men or women that some responsibilities are bestowed upon one and not the other. Duties of the priesthood are delegated to men and are patriarchal, which means “of the father.” From the very beginning this has been so. The scriptures plainly state that they were “confirmed to be handed down from father to son. … This order was instituted in the days of Adam.” (D&C 107:40–41.)

- Boyd K. Packer

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 Many in the world now press for a melding of the identities of man and woman, claiming that the virtue of equality requires a homogenization of all relationships. Following an absolutely hopeless quest, some seek for an enduring physical and spiritual relationship with one of the same gender. That wicked deception has unleashed a pestilence which now threatens the whole of humanity. There can be no fulfillment there. To find fulfillment, they must—and praise be to God, they can—find it where it has been from the beginning.

- Boyd K. Packer

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       There is no task, however menial, connected with the care of babies, the nurturing of children, or with the maintenance of the home that is not his equal obligation. The tasks which come with parenthood, which many consider to be below other tasks, are simply above them.

- Boyd K. Packer

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  When our sons were growing up, they enjoyed a very broad tolerance from their father toward their mischief and mistakes. But there was no tolerance for even the slightest disrespect toward their mother.        And the question our daughters-in-law have heard most often from me has been, “Is he being good to you?”

- Boyd K. Packer

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 "He [Christ] does not have to be spiteful or vengeful in order that punishment will come from the breaking of the moral code. The laws are established of themselves.”

- Boyd K. Packer

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 Look at ourselves - run over our own experience, and we shall discover that ourselves, our neighbors, our friends, our acquaintances, and all people do not always know when they are happy. In other words, if you could crowd an individual or a community into heaven without experience, it would be no enjoyment to them.

- Brigham Young

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 Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

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 Am I doing enough? What else should I be doing? The action we take in response to these questions is central to our happiness in this life and in the eternities. The Savior does not want us to take salvation for granted. Even after we have made sacred covenants, there is a possibility that we may “fall from grace and depart from the living God.” So we should “take heed and pray always” to avoid falling “into temptation.”

- Dale G. Renlund

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 Men may indulge in things they call happiness, but there is often no real happiness in in them, for they bring punishment along in the sting they leave behind. It is not so with proper enjoyments - enjoyments within the scope of reason and right, where there is no infringement upon each other.

- Daniel H. Wells

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 Remember, misery is comfortable. It's why so many people prefer it. Happiness takes effort.

- David Wong

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 In a video presentation at its 2012 national convention, the Democratic Party offered its answer: “Government’s the only thing that we all belong to,” the narrator said.

- Dennis Prager

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 Karl Marx saw man as primarily motivated by economics; Sigmund Freud saw man as primarily driven by the sexual drive; Charles Darwin, or at least his followers, see us as primarily driven by biology. But Frankl was right. As regards economics, poor people who have meaning can be happy, but wealthy people who lack meaning cannot be. As regards sex, people who do not have a sexual life (such as priests, who keep their vow of chastity; many widowed and divorced older people; and others) but have meaning can be happy. Sexually active people who do not have meaning cannot be. As regards biology, there is no evolutionary explanation for the need for meaning. Every creature except the human being does fine without meaning. And nothing has given Americans – or any other people, for that matter – as much meaning as religion. But since World War II, God and religion have been relegated to the dustbin of history.

- Dennis Prager

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 Maybe, just maybe, the death of religion – the greatest provider of meaning, while certainly not the only – is the single biggest factor in the increasing sadness and loneliness among Americans (and so many others). A 2016 study published in the American Medical Association JAMA Psychiatry journal found that American women who attended a religious service at least once a week were five times less likely to commit suicide. Common sense suggests the same is true of men.

- Dennis Prager

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 The bottom line: The reason so many young people are depressed, unhappy and angry is the left has told them that God and Judeo-Christian religions are nonsense; their country is largely evil; their past is deplorable; and their future is hopeless.

- Dennis Prager

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 And it explains the widespread adoption of that secular substitute for traditional religion: leftism. But unlike Judaism and Christianity, leftism does not bring its adherents happiness.

- Dennis Prager

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 The Communists who imagined a utopian Russia destroyed the terribly flawed Czarist society but produced a far worse place and gave us the gulag. The Germans who compared the flawed democracy of Weimar Germany to images of a Great Reich destroyed that imperfect democracy and gave the world Auschwitz. In the Middle East today, some religious people who compare their flawed societies to images of a religious utopia governed by God and their religion's laws support the creation of religious totalitarian states. Americans who compare their society, one of the most just in human history, to a society free of all competition, racism, sexism, and any other real or imagined flaw—or to an imagined idyllic past—often weaken that society by condemning and reforming it excessively and unjustly On the other hand, without any images of a better society, we would have little reason to hope for a better world, and we would have little guidance in what to strive for. But images are like fire and need to be handled accordingly.

- Dennis Prager

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 One of human nature's most effective ways of sabotaging happiness is to look at a beautiful scene and fixate on whatever is flawed or missing, no matter how small.

- Dennis Prager

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 But what is desirable or even necessary in the physical world can be very self-destructive when applied to the emotional world. Ceilings can be perfect, but life cannot. In life, there will always be tiles missing-and even when there aren't, we can always imagine a more perfect life and therefore imagine that something is missing.

- Dennis Prager

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 I do not know whether such a study has been made, but I doubt that there is a correlation between hair and happiness-and if there is, it is a direct result of bald men attributing too much importance to their missing hair and allowing it to make them unhappy.

- Dennis Prager

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 We often proclaim whatever we think is missing in another person to be the most important trait. A trait that we believe-or that is in fact-missing in our child becomes the most important trait in a child. A trait we perceive as missing in our spouse becomes the most important trait in a husband or wife. And to make things worse, we then find this trait in other people's children or spouses.

- Dennis Prager

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 This is yet another way in which we make ourselves, not to mention others, miserable. It is human nature to concentrate on what is missing and deem it the most important trait. Unless we teach ourselves to concentrate on what we do have, we will end up obsessing over missing tiles and allow them to become insurmountable obstacles to happiness.

- Dennis Prager

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 This is one reason, incidentally, why it is foolish to envy all successful people-many of them are driven by demons that no amount of success can assuage.

- Dennis Prager

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 Success at work cannot be equated with happiness, but work can still be a major source of happiness-if the work is joyful and meaningful.

- Dennis Prager

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 The pursuit of financial success is destructive when engaged in for its own sake and not for reasons that increase happiness.

- Dennis Prager

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 Unhappy people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.

- Dennis Prager

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 When most people think of success they think of professional and material success. It is this type of success that cannot be equated with happiness. There are, however, myriad forms of success that do lead to happiness: success in love, in relationships, in child rearing, in touching others' lives, in becoming deeper, in gaining wisdom, in doing good, and in learning about oneself.

- Dennis Prager

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 For example, though nearly everyone would acknowledge that having good friends is far more meaningful-and far more important to happiness-than having great professional success at work few of us would characterize a man who was moderately successful at work but who had deep and loving friendship as a "Great Success." At the same time, we routinely call wealthy men successful without knowing whether they have a friend in the world. I do not foresee a worldwide movement to use the term success more accurately, though such a movement would in fact greatly increase human happiness. But until we reach such a blessed time, we should forthrightly acknowledge that our current definition of success is more conducive to increasing unhappiness than happiness.

- Dennis Prager

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 How important an obstacle to happiness is the family? We can answer this by imagining how different the world would be if everyone were raised from birth by a happy, healthy, loving, attentive, and ethical mother and father (biological or adoptive). There would be far fewer police officers needed, far fewer wars fought, and far fewer books on happiness written. We wage battles within society, but the real battlefield for a better world, at least in a free society, is within the family.

- Dennis Prager

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 First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy-which would only give evil another victory-I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.

- Dennis Prager

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 Second, happiness is important to doing good. Unhappy people are usually less capable than happy people of doing good. For one thing, they are usually too preoccupied with themselves and their unhappiness to do much good for others.

- Dennis Prager

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 Third, instead of allowing the enormity of the world's suffering to make me unhappy, I have allowed it to increase the depth of my gratitude for the blessed life that I have been allowed to lead.

- Dennis Prager

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 People who have chosen to regard themselves as victims cannot allow themselves to enjoy life, because enjoying life would challenge their perception of themselves as victims.

- Dennis Prager

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 ...once biochemical healing begins, people should be able and inspired-since the fog is finally beginning to lift-to confront the psychological origins of their depression (which may be the ultimate cause of the biochemical imbalance.)

- Dennis Prager

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 Drugs such as Prozac no more make a person happy than a cast on a broken leg makes a person a track star. The leg cast enables the leg to heal so that a person may eventually be able to run again.

- Dennis Prager

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 ...people need a sense of purpose to maintain a will to live.

- Dennis Prager

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 However, at least one difference is unbridgeable-animals do not need to have meaning in their lives.

- Dennis Prager

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 ...even when he suffered the torment of solitary confinement, he was a happier person than his guards because his life, unlike theirs, had meaning and sense of purpose.

- Dennis Prager

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 Perhaps the best way to understand depth is to think of growth: we become deeper when we struggle to grow-emotionally, morally, psychologically, intellectually, and in wisdom. Note, please, that struggle is part of depth. Very little that is acquired easily is deep.

- Dennis Prager

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 Pursuing depth is on of the distinguishing characteristics of the human being; it is one of the noblest goals of a human life; and it brings ongoing happiness. Indeed, the journey to depth brings as much happiness as its attainment, and since depth has no limits, the journey to it never ends.

- Dennis Prager

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 Wisdom may be defined as understanding, as opposed to merely knowing.

- Dennis Prager

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 One reason is that we are far more capable of handling life's tragedies when we have some explanation for them.

- Dennis Prager

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 A lack of clarity suggests that our life is in chaos; chaos suggests meaninglessness; and meaninglessness guarantees unhappiness.

- Dennis Prager

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 Clarity cannot change everything that will happen in our life, and it will certainly not change anything that has happened, but it transforms us from passive bystanders to actors.

- Dennis Prager

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 People who make doing good and attaining good character more important goals than achieving happiness achieve happiness as a by-product of that goal.

- Dennis Prager

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 Some people accuse those of us who have this attitude of deluding ourselves in order to be happy, but these people miss the point. There is almost always a positive element in a negative situation, just as there is almost always a negative aspect to a positive situation. Choosing to find the positive and emphasizing it is not in any way a form of self-delusion.

- Dennis Prager

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 If you value growth, you will value virtually every situation because there are very few situations from which you cannot learn and therefore grow.

- Dennis Prager

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 Let us make this clear: this rule applies to every action people undertake. If you ever think that there is no price being paid for a decision you have made, you have not thought the issue through.

- Dennis Prager

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 Some people may perceive having always to ask, "what price do I pay?" as depressing. It is not at all depressing; in fact, it immeasurably adds to your happiness. First, it enormously helps to prevent unhappiness caused by later shock and disappointment when you do become aware of the prices paid. Second, this rule makes it clear that whatever else you would choose would also exact a price, very possibly a much steeper one.

- Dennis Prager

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 The lower and bad parts of human nature are not only unobjectionable, they can actually be beneficial. Think about it: would you rather be married to fa faithful person who has little lust or to a faithful person who has a lustful nature that he or she controls? Most of us would prefer the latter-because that person is both more alive and more moral (there is no virtue in not acting on a desire that doesn't exist).

- Dennis Prager

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 We often think that the moral life and the psychologically healthy life are in conflict because the former demands suppression and the latter, expression. This not true. Not only can one be both moral and psychologically healthy but, at their best, moral behavior and psychological health are complementary. In general, psychological health better enables a person to act morally (though it doesn't ensure it); and we are most psychologically healthy when we are most capable of controlling ourselves.

- Dennis Prager

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 One reason is inner peace. Think of all the truly decent people you know personally, and then think of the worst people you know. Which individuals strike you as having more inner peace? Whenever I have posed this question to audiences, the response has been virtually unanimous. We regard the good people we know as having much greater inner peace.

- Dennis Prager

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 ...self control goes against zeitgeist, the spirit of our times, which glorifies getting all we want and makes us feel deprived and even somewhat of a failure if we do not. If medieval religious attitudes are associated with self-denial, modern secular attitudes are identified with denying ourselves nothing.

- Dennis Prager

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 Unfortunately, however, many people define the great value of freedom incorrectly. They define freedom as doing whatever they want. But doing what you want usually means doing what your body and nature want, and this is not only not freedom, it is actually more akin to bondage. Addicts do what they want-and they are among the least free people on earth. Freedom is being able to do what will bring you happiness-and that takes self-control.

- Dennis Prager

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 First, only marriage combines all three forms of companionship-a spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. That is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one. Second, unlike all other family relationships and unlike all other friendships, marriage alone combines those elements with sex, a uniquely powerful form of bonding. Third, unlike other family relationship, which are nearly all unequal (parent-child; older sibling-younger sibling), a good marriage is a relationship of equals. Fourth, unlike both family and friends, we are with our wife or husband virtually every day. And the concept of "quality time" notwithstanding, quantity of time is a quality, on that has a powerfully bonding effect. Women intuitively know this better than men, which is why it is they who generally demand more time with their spouse.

- Dennis Prager

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 I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, "chemistry," or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e., their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

- Dennis Prager

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 This is an example of the connection between goodness and happiness. Good people bring good people into their lives, and good people in our lives bring us happiness. The people we bring into our lives are somewhat like a mirror of ourselves-and as with all mirrors, what we see may sometimes disturb us. If you find that you repeatedly bring unsavory people into your life, either there is a something missing in your own character or your good character is being sabotaged by a troubled emotional life.

- Dennis Prager

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 The difference between happiness and misery … often comes down to an error of only a few degrees.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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 Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

- Helen Keller

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 We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

- Helen Keller

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 I think of all the people in the world we should be the happiest. We have the greatest and most joyous message in the world. I think when we get on the other side, someone will meet us with a smile (unless we go to the wrong place and then someone will grin), so let us be happy. But let our happiness be genuine - let it come from within."

- Hugh B. Brown

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 "Kant argued that it was not the consequences of actions that make them right or wrong but the motives of the person who carries out the action."

- Immanuel Kant

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 “The majesty of duty has nothing to do with enjoyment of life; it has its special law and its special tribunal”

- Immanuel Kant

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 “Pure practical reason does not require that we should renounce all claim to happiness, but only that the moment duty is in question we should take no account of happiness”

- Immanuel Kant

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 "Man requires a master, therefore, to curb his will, and to compel him into submission to a universal will which may secure the possibility of universal freedom.“

- Immanuel Kant

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 To be happy, however, you need some degree of success in each major area.

- James Clear

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 Optimal lives are designed, not discovered.

- James Clear

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 The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim

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 In the days and years ahead, you may suffer some discouragement and disappointment. On occasion you may feel genuine despair, either for yourself or your children or the plight and conditions of others. You may even make a personal mistake or two — serious mistakes, perhaps, though I hope not — and you may worry that any chance to be happy and secure in life has eluded you forever. When such times come, I ask you to remember this: This is the church of the happy endings.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

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 I am firmly of the belief that the Gospel of Jesus Christ does not insulate us from trials and hardships. It’s not meant to. Because both holy scriptures and modern prophets teach that joy are the object of our existence, many Latter-day Saints inadvertently assume that (1) joy and happiness are defined by positive emotions and that (2) the pursuit of these positive emotions is our purpose in life. 

- Jeffrey Thayne

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 The purpose of the Gospel is not to make us happy (as the world defines it, e.g., positive emotions), but to make us holy. And this holiness is what divine Joy looks like. 

- Jeffrey Thayne

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 The way I see it, misery is pain that is embittered with resentment and fueled by selfishness. Suffering is pain that is sweetened with forgiveness and empowered by love. In this world (and in the next) there will be pain and hardship. But the Love of God can transform that pain from misery to suffering, by making us whole in our hearts and holy in our souls.

- Jeffrey Thayne

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 ...people make decisions assuming that more income, comfort, and positional goods will make them happier, but they fail to recognize that adaptation and social comparison will come into play and raise their aspirations to about the same extent as their actual gains, which leaves them feeling no happier than before.

- Jennifer Warner

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 A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

- John Locke

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 To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need…

- Jordan Gundersen

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 The only real way to find meaning and fulfillment in your life is by obtaining self respect through responsibility and accountability.

- Jordan Gundersen

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 Like Dr. Peterson says- we have to find the right balance between order and chaos where we’re competent enough but also challenged enough. When we fall to either side, we don’t find any meaning or fulfillment.

- Jordan Gundersen

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 America is great because she is good. The goodness of her citizens is what makes her great. My fear is that we have forgotten how to be good. Many of us have forgotten what good even is.

- Jordan Gundersen

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 Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

- Joseph Smith

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 “Happiness is the object and design of our existence and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. …And as God has designed our happiness—and the happiness of all His creatures, he never has—He never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of his law and ordinances.”

- Joseph Smith

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 ...The only true security in life is living the commandments. Financial security and public position are hollow without righteousness...You lived with your Heavenly Father in a premortal life. You were there with Him. Your spirit knows what it is like to live in celestial realms. You can never be truly happy in an uncelestial environment. You know too much. That is one of the reasons that for you, wickedness can never be happiness.

- Larry W. Gibbons

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 The family is the center of life and the key to eternal happiness.

- L. Tom Perry

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 As you allow Him to do so, you will discover that your suffering was not in vain. Speaking of many of the Bible’s greatest heroes and their griefs, the Apostle Paul said that “God … provided some better things for them through their sufferings, for without sufferings they could not be made perfect.”19 You see, the very nature of God and aim of our earthly existence is happiness,20 but we cannot become perfect beings of divine joy without experiences that test us, sometimes to our very core. Paul says even the Savior Himself was made eternally “perfect [or complete] through sufferings.”21 So guard against the satanic whispering that if you were a better person, you would avoid such trials.

- Matthew S. Holland

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 Brothers and sisters, suffering in righteousness helps qualify you for, rather than distinguishes you from, God’s elect. And

- Matthew S. Holland

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 I witness to you that through the staggering goodness of Jesus Christ and His infinite Atonement, we can escape the deserved agonies of our moral failings and overcome the undeserved agonies of our mortal misfortunes.

- Matthew S. Holland

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 That you might taste this happiness now and be filled with it forever, I invite you to do what Alma did: let your mind catch hold on the exquisite gift of the Son of God as revealed through His gospel in this, His true and living Church.

- Matthew S. Holland

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 The world is full of very happy septic-tank cleaners and miserable investment bankers.

- Mike Rowe

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 Those who try to qualify God's omniscience fail to understand that He has no need to avoid ennui by learning new things. Because God's love is also perfect,there is, in fact, divine delight in that "one eternal round" which, to us, seems to be all routine and repetition. God derives His great and continuing joy and glory by increasing and advancing His creations, and not from new intellectual experiences.

- Neal A. Maxwell

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 The future duties to be given to some of us in the worlds to come by an omniscient God will require of us an earned sense of esteem as well as proof of our competency. Thus the tests given to us here are given not because God is in doubt as to the outcome, but because we need to grow in order to be able to serve with full effectiveness in the eternity to come. Further, to be untested and unproven is also to be unaware of all that we are. If we are unknowing of our possibilities, with what could we safely be entrusted? Could we in ignorance of our capacities trust ourselves? Could others then be entrusted to us? Thus the relentless love of our Father in heaven is such that in His omniscience, He will not allow the cutting short some of the brief experiences we are having here. To do so would be to deprive us of everlasting experiences and great joy there. What else would an omniscient and loving Father do, even if we plead otherwise? He must at times say no. Furthermore, since there was no exemption from suffering for Christ, how can there be one for us? Do we really want immunity from adversity? Especially when certain kinds of suffering can aid our growth in this life? To deprive ourselves of those experiences, much as we might momentarily like to, would be to deprive ourselves of the outcomes over which we shouted with anticipated joy when this life's experiences were explained to us so long ago, in the world before we came here.

- Neal A. Maxwell

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 He is a loving Father who wants us to have the happiness that results not from mere innocence but from proven righteousness. Therefore, he will, at at times, not deflect the harsh learning experiences that may come to each of us - even though he will help us in coping with them.

- Neal A. Maxwell

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 We are only as happy as our least happy child.

- Olivia Lichtenstein

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 “To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able, in any country where this is possible,”

- Osama bin Laden

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 When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

- Oscar Wilde

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 When it came rolling in, the money affected us all. Not much, and not for long, because non of us was ever driven by money. But that's the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it.

- Phil Knight

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 An evangelist must have a happy face...He can't look like he just came from a funeral.

- Pope Francis

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 If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

- Richard Bach

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 I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that that will make me happy.

- Richard Bach

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 It is not important whether one's vision is as great as that of another. It is a personal question as to whether one shall live in and deal with his greatest moments of happiness.

- Robert Henri

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 Every movement in nature is orderly, one thing the outcome of another, a matter of constructive, growing force. We live our lives in tune with nature when we are happy, and all our misery is the result of our effort to dictate against nature.

- Robert Henri

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 The subject is beauty - or happiness, and man's approach to it is various.

- Robert Henri

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 The gift of repentance is an expression of God’s kindness toward His children, and it is a demonstration of His incomparable power to help us overcome the sins we commit. It is also an evidence of the patience and long-suffering our loving Father has for our mortal weakness and frailties. President Russell M. Nelson, our beloved prophet, referred to this gift as “the key to happiness and peace of mind.”

- Ulisses Soares

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 But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy. Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically.

- Viktor Frankl

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 Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

- Viktor Frankl

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 As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

- Viktor Frankl

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 We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

- Voltaire

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 Well of course, happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It's just according to the way you look at things. You know.

- Walt Disney

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 Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

- Walt Disney

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 But all individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy. Yet I envied those people. I had a brother who I really envied because he was a mailman. But he's the one that had all the fun. He had himself a trailer, and he used to go out and go fishing, and he didn't worry about payrolls and stories and picture grosses or anything. And he was the happy one. I always said, "He's the smart Disney."

- Walt Disney

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 THEN THERE IS SOME HOPE IN THAT MESSAGE, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU THINK IF YOU JUST ACCEPTED PEOPLE THE WAY THEY ARE THEY WOULD BE HAPPY U.S. NO THEY WOULDN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR ARE NOT HAPPY, HAPPY IS A CONSEQUENCE OF MOVING TOWARDS SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE AIMING FOR. SO, NO AIM, NO HAPPINESS, THAT IS ANOTHER GOOD THING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO KNOW IS TO HAVE A GOAL. TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY HAPPINESS OCCURS WHEN YOU SEE YOURSELF MOVING TOWARD A VALUED GOAL, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS NEUROPSYCH LOGICALLY, CHEMICALLY. SO, THE HIGHER YOUR GOAL, THE HIGHER YOUR POSSIBILITY FOR HAPPINESS EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE TO SUFFER FROM A DISTANCE.
- Jordan Peterson
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 Here's a rule. My friends. Happy blacks vote Republican. Happy women vote Republican. Happy Jews vote Republican happy. Happy Salamanders vote Republican. Unhappiness is The secret to Democratic success if we can convince you life is miserable
- Dennis Prager
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 While my only agenda of that hour and my book is to make people happier or enable them to be happier. I Realized after a number of years while it's not my agenda. It is a it is a factor. I'm making more Republicans. I Never thought of it that way, but as people get happier, they switch parties, they no longer see themselves as ruined by American life it's a very very important aspect of current American life and I'm coming near the end the list.
- Dennis Prager
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 But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

- Albert Camus

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 If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

- Albert Einstein

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 A VALUE is the GOOD which we desire to gain or keep. A VIRTUE is the RIGHT action by which we gain or keep it. Virtues are right actions that preserve good. Vices are wrong actions that destroy good.

- Armon Eaton

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 Only by knowing the value of that which is good for us can we know what action is right and wrong to do in order to gain that good.

- Armon Eaton

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 Only by knowing the end goal can we know the means to get us there.

- Armon Eaton

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 Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is a moral need that makes up part of our identity. Moral needs have primacy over Duties (chosen obligations)

- Armon Eaton

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 Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is a moral need that makes up part of our identity. Moral needs have primacy over Duties (chosen obligations)

- Armon Eaton

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 Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- A. Sachs

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 Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

- Booth Tarkington

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 What do you take me for, an idiot? (General Charles de Gaulle when a journalist asked him if he was happy)

- Charles de Gaulle

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 A man without a smiling face must not open shop.

- Chinese Proverb

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 The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

- Dale Carnegie

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 The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

- David Steindl-Rast

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 Joy is the reward of seeking to give joy to others. When you are caring, compassionate, more concerned about the welfare of others than of your own, you suddenly feel a warm glow in your heart because you have in fact wiped the tears from the eyes of another.

- Desmond Tutu

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 Joy does not arrive with a fanfare, on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life. Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee, watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right. And you usher joy away, because you are not ready for it. Your house is not as it must be, for such a distinguished guest. But joy cares nothing for your messy home, or your bank-balance, or your waistline, you see. Joy is supposed to slither through the cracks of your imperfect life, that's how joy works. You cannot invite her, you can only be ready when she appears. And hug her with meaning, because in this very moment, joy chose you.

- Donna Ashworth

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 That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

- Euripides

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 The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

- F.H. Bradley

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 We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Frederick Keonig

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 We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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 I sometimes forget that I was created for Joy. My mind is too busy. My Heart is too heavy for me to remember that I have been called to dance the sacred dance of life. I was created to smile to love to be lifted up and to lift others up. O’ Sacred One untangle my feet from all that ensnares. Free my soul. That we might dance and that our dancing might be contagious.

- Hafiz

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 Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

- Henri Nouwen

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 Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

- Joseph Addison

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 The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

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 Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 The world improves people according to the dispositions they bring into it.

- Renier Guistina Michiel

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 Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

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 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

- Robert Frost

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 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

- Rumi

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 When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

- Tara Brach

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 When you have a more compassionate mind and cultivate warm-heartedness, the whole atmosphere around you becomes more positive and friendlier. You see friends everywhere. If you feel fear and distrust, then other people will distance themselves, they will also feel cautious, suspicious, and distrust. Then comes the feeling of loneliness. When someone is warm-hearted, they are always completely relaxed. If you live with fear and consider yourself as something special, then automatically, emotionally, you are distanced from others. You then create the basis for feelings of alienation from others and loneliness. JOY IS AN INSIDE JOB. THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EVER. It means that we don’t have to simply hope that we’ll feel better, someday, maybe. We can take the reins and create more JOY for ourselves.

- The Dalai Lama

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 The goal is not just to create joy for ourselves, but ‘to be a reservoir of joy, an oasis of peace, a pool of serenity, that can ripple out to those around you.’ Joy is in fact quite contagious. As is love, compassion, and generosity.

- The Dalai Lama

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 Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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 The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

- Unknown

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 No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

- Unknown

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 That is happiness, to be dissolved into something completely great.

- Wila Cather

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