Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.

Perhaps it’s because it’s incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I’m happy.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don’t be fearful of losing love. If you don’t live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.

But love brings much happiness – much more so than pining brings pain.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness … leads none of us by the same route.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

I’m giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I’m not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an ‘iffy’ emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.