Quotes about Happiness
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
— Oswald Chambers
God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you—"that they may be one just as We are one
— Oswald Chambers
If we were never depressed, we would not be alive—only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation.
— Oswald Chambers
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
— Oswald Chambers
And be over-the-moon grateful that everything is working out for your good.
— Pam Grout
It's rare that I have a boyfriend- that only happens if I fall in love. I've noticed that people who are never in a relationship just to be in a relationship keep their childlike spark because they don't end up settling for things that make them unhappy, and they never feel as if they took less than what was out there for them. So for me, being single is what I do, and falling in love is the exception.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
You know when you're in yoga and you're looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: "Stay on your own mat." Not physically, but mentally. In life, we're all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That's where happiness lies.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
Love isn't always enough. It's a hard lesson because we're raised to believe that it is—it's in every story we hear. But just because you love somebody and they love you back doesn't mean your relationship makes sense or that it's a good one for you both to be in. Having chemistry with someone is important, yes, but the most important thing is that the person you're with makes you happy.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.
— Patricia St. John
mean that if you spend your time putting the love of your heart into what you do for those who are not your friends, you may often be disappointed and discouraged. But if you keep on trying you will find your happiness in loving, whether you are loved back or not.
— Patricia St. John
We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
— Paul David Tripp