top of page
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr

"When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again."

Standard 
 Customized
"When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again."

Exlpore more Happiness quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

Explore more quotes by Richard Rohr

Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"People who have been initiated 'broke through in what felt like breaking down'."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Men as a class appear to be 'at risk, ' maybe even at high risk."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
Quote_1.png
Richard Rohr
"Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us."
bottom of page