Pastoral Resources

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Independence is happiness.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.