Happy are the downtrodden.

In the spiritual energy that relieves The anguish of beings in misery and Places depressed beings in eternal joy I lift up my heart and rejoice.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voilà tout.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;

The best of us can find happiness in misery.

And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven.

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.