Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

The human heart desires joy. We all desire joy, every family, every people aspires to happiness. But what is the joy that the Christian is called to live out and bear witness to? It is the joy that comes from the closeness of God, from his presence in our life. From the moment Jesus entered into history, with his birth in Bethlehem, humanity received the seed of the Kingdom of God, like the soil receives the seed, the promise of a future harvest.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Happiness is pleasure without regret.