Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.
If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key. - Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha
Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think. - Buddha
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - Carl Jung
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C.S. Lewis
It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. - C.S. Lewis
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. - C.S. Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. - C.S. Lewis
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs. - Jason Mraz
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