"happiness" in the Big Book

There had been much happiness after all.

I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.

In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.

Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well?

Each might pray about it, having the other one’s happiness uppermost in mind.

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

In spite of your new-found happiness, there will be ups and downs.

The family of an alcoholic longs for the return of happiness and security.

that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past.

Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others.

It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others.