Title: Happiness is ...

   Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

   -- Anonymous

See:  Prov 19:23; Phil 4:12; Heb 13:5

Title:  Relative Happiness

   An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Russian were discussing happiness. "Happiness," said the Englishman, "Is when you return home tired after work and find your slippers warming by the fire."
   "You English have no romance," said the Frenchman. "Happiness is having dinner with a beautiful woman at a fine restaurant."
   "You are both wrong," said the Russian. "True happiness is when you are at home in bed and at 4 a.m. hear a hammering at the door and there stand the secret police, who say to you, 'Ivan Ivanovitch, you are under arrest,' and you say, 'Sorry, Ivan Ivanovitch lives next door.'"

See:  1 Tim 6:8

Title:  Where is Happiness?

   Not in unbelief --
   Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: "I wish I had never been born."
   Not in pleasure --
   Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure, if anyone did. He wrote: "The worm, the canker, and the grief are mine alone."
   Not in money --
   Jay Gould, the American millionaire, had plenty of that. When dying he said: "I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth."
   Not in position and fame --
   Lord Beaconsfield enjoyed more than his share of both. He wrote: "Youth is a mistake; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret."
   Not in military glory --
   Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day. Having done so, he wept, because, he said, "There are no more worlds to conquer."
   Where, then, is happiness found? The answer is simple: In Christ alone. He said, "I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man can taketh from you."

See:  Eccl 2:10-11; Luke 10:20; John 16:20-22

Title:  Laughter and Happiness

   The Lord desired that His people take Him seriously but that they not take themselves too seriously. He wants them to wipe off their grim looks, put smiles on their faces, and let laughter flow from their lips. In light of this counsel, many of us would do well to ponder these comments from the pen of Helmut Thielicke:
   Should we not see that lines of laughter about the eyes are just as much marks of faith as are the line of care and seriousness? Is it only earnestness that is baptized? Is laughter pagan? We have already allowed too much that is good to be lost to the church and cast many pearls before swine. A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.

See:  Neh 8:10; Psa 16:11; Psa 30:11; Gal 5:22; Phil 3:1

Title:  Imune system and happiness

   A bad marriage can depress the body's immune system. Unhappily married women have subnormal levels of white blood cells (which destroy infections) and increased herpes virus activity. Other immune system depressants: Stress and loneliness.

   -- Janet Kiecolt-Glaser

See:  Prov 4:20-23; Prov 5:18-19

Title:  Christina Onassis quote

   Happiness is not based on money and the greatest proof of that is our family!

   -- Christina Onassis

See:  1 Tim 6:10

Title:  Where Happiness is Found - Attitude

Where Happiness is Found - Attitude

Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in my life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.  Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.  On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school.  Jamie  rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement.  "Guess what Mum," he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer!"

-- unknown