“Happiness isn’t getting what we want but being satisfied with what we have. The way to be happy is to be grateful even with the simple blessings we have.”

“Happiness in it's uncut form
Is the feeling that I get, you're warm, warm
Happy's what I get when we do what we do
Happiness, mama, is being with u
Good lord.”

“We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don’t have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.”

“The secret to happiness… be satisfied and be grateful.”

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

“We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.”

“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”

“Most of us always want to be different; better, prettier, richer, smarter, and so on. That's what makes us jealous of other people's advantages that we don't have. And that is also the reason why we are never satisfied and do not feel happiness.”

“Happiness is not about getting what we want from the universe, but about how we can gratefully accept what the universe has given us.”

“We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. It’s simple. It isn’t going to get us anything. It isn’t there to augment anything. It’s there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.”