Happiness in This Life Quotes

“joy is the salt of the earth and the light of the world. It is the yeast that leavens society as a whole.”
― Pope Francis, Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence

“Happiness can’t be bought. And whenever you try to buy happiness, you soon realize that it has vanished. The happiness you can buy does not last. Only the happiness of love lasts!”
― Pope Francis, Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence

“To face the turmoil we experience in life, we need the presence of God in our hearts. His presence in us is the source of true consolation: It stays with us, it frees us from evil, it brings peace, and it increases our joy.”
― Pope Francis, Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence

“In dialogue, the path towards God Q. (girl): I see God in other people. Where do you see God? A. (Pope Francis): I try, I try . . . to meet him in every circumstance of life. I try . . . I find him in my reading of the Bible, I find him in the celebration of the Sacraments, I try to find him in prayer and also in my work, in people, in various people . . . Above all I find him in the sick: the sick do me good, because I wonder, when I am with a sick person, why him and not me?”
― Pope Francis, Happiness in This Life

“is sad to reach a certain age, to look over the journey we have made and find that it was made up of scraps, without unity, without form: everything temporary…”
― Pope Francis, Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence