The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us. Walter Wangerin Jr.
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Happiness is not stable, it’s fleeting. The more you have of it, the more you want. It has to do with what you are doing in that moment. You’re in the middle of a game and you score a goal, that’s happiness.

However, if you miss your shot, that’s sadness. Sorrow is the opposite of happiness and it will bring your happiness down. You can look at this quote as an example of how life is not always about making yourself happy, but making yourself better.

Source: Reliving The Passion: Meditations On The Suffering, Death, And The Resurrection Of Jesus As Recorded In Mark.

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