Happiness and Joy

Smiling through her tears.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Beauty is only a promise of happiness.

Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate. Meredith Grey ABOUT THE AUTHOR B. Ashiedu lives in the UK with her awesome husband. She enjoys exploring museums and new places with her husband.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. Steve Maraboli

When one loves somebody, everything is clear—where to go, what to do—it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

When you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.

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.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been .

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least .

No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not deck’d with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: my crown is call’d content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.