Here are some quotes for us to consider before we begin our discussion of happiness, contentment, and joy. They raise a number of questions. Does knowing happiness require knowing its opposite -- sadness? How long can we live with the intensity of any great emotion? Are these emotions "pearls of great price?"
CONTENTMENT:
"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase." Balguy
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." Socrates
HAPPINESS:
Quote: I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive
Author: Henry Miller
Quote: The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
Author: Allan K. Chalmers
Quote: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Author: Carl Jung
JOY:
Quote: In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
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