#happiness

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. ↗

— Billy Graham

#being there #believe #dog #everything #god

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy ↗

— Tim Willocks

#sadness #religion

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#child #granted #happiness #his #maturity

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-quote #love #life

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

#common #even #friendship #hands #happiness

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#being #earth #greater #happiness #heaven