Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.
It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
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