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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
Sep 10, 2025
If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
So you have to take the good with the bad.
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.