I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
— Juan Pablo Di Pace
I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.
— Joyce Meyer
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
— Jourdan Dunn
Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
— Josh Holloway
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
— Josephine Baker
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
— Joseph Roux
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
— Joseph Butler
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
— Joseph Addison
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
— Jose Marti
If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.
— Jorge Bucay
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
— Joni Mitchell
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
— Jonathan Mayhew
I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'
— Jon Tester
There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.
— Juan Mata
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
— Joyce Grenfell
Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
— Joy Fielding
Joys divided are increased.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
— Jose Bergamin
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
— Jordan Peterson
As comfortable as I am being single, nothing beats sharing your happiness with someone you love.
— Jonathan Scott
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
— Jonathan Edwards
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.
— Jon M. Chu
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
— Joy Bryant
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
— Josh Lucas
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.
— Jorge Ramos
'Happiness' is a pointless goal.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
— Jonathan Davis
