And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalms - 16, 11
7Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.
Psalms - 5,12
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.
The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
8"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"
If you are happy, happiness will come to you. Because happiness wants to go where happiness is.
'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
Magic: The Gathering () - Pendrell Drake
6Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is like lightning, blink and you miss it. After that came the fall. When you reach heaven the fall is devastating.
Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 7
4In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Psalms - 34, 19
14What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us. Time and time over. They are to be happy in. Where can we live but days?
One Day - Season 1 Episode 1
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love "Tender is the Night," and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.
Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4
2God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.
Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.
David Nicholls in Us
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?