What is Pope Francis saying about happiness? What is Pope Francis saying to teachers and students?

1. Francis
WHAT IS HE SAYING ABOUT
HAPPINESS?

2. LIFE IS FLEETING: 10 tips for happiness
1. “Campa e lascia campa” – Live and let live!
2. Be available to your children and family – “Consumerism has led
to the anxiety of losing”
3. Spend Sunday (or a rest day) with your family
4. Move on. The key is forgiveness.
5. Give yourself tirelessly to others. “If one gets tired, one runs the
risk of being egoistic, and stagnant water is the first to be corrupted.”

3. Five more tips…
6. Walk softly. “The ability to move with kindness and humility, calmness of life.”
7. Work toward empowering young people.
8. Care for the environment. Aim to leave “this beautiful planet” in better shape
than when we found it.
9. Respect others’ opinions.
10. Actively strive for peace. “War destroys. And we must cry out for peace.
Peace sometimes gives the idea of stillness, but it is never stillness. It is always
an active peace….We must speak the language of peace.”

4. Francis
WHAT IS HE SAYING TO
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS?

5. To students

6. HAVING A BIG HEART
“[School means] having a big heart, having a greatness of soul. It means having
grand ideals, the desire to achieve great things in response to what God asks of
us…”

7. Freedom
“Being free to always choose the good is challenging, but it will make you
persons with backbone, who know how to face life, courageous and patient
persons.”

8. Service
“In your schools you participate in
activities that prepare you not to
be wrapped up in yourselves…but
to open yourselves to others,
especially the poorest and those
most in need…”

9. Don’t let yourselves be robbed of Hope
“Our lives are a response to his call and you
will be happy and build your lives well if
you know how to answer that call…”
“No one can strip us of the dignity
bestowed upon us by boundless and
unfailing love.”

11. For teachers…
“Educating isn’t a profession but an
attitude…”
“But above all, witness with your
lives what you are communicating.”

12. Community
“Walking in community, with friends, with those who love
us, that helps us.”
“An evangelising [good news] community gets involved by
word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances,
and is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces
human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others.”
“If we wish to lead a dignified and fulfilling life, we have to
reach out to others and seek their good.”

15. Who gives Francis the heart to
speak like this?

18. To the students of England and Wales
“The key to it is very simple – true happiness is
to be found in God. We need to have the
courage to place our deepest hopes in God
alone, not in money, in a career, in worldly
success, or in our relationships with others, but
in God. Only he can satisfy the deepest needs of
our hearts.”
(Twickenham, 17th September, 2010)

20. Somebody should tell us, right at the start of
our lives, that we are dying. Then we might
live life to the limit, every minute of every
day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do,
do it now! There are only so many
tomorrows.
Pope Paul VI

21. John 23rd (Good Pope John)
Consult not your fears but your
hopes and your dreams. Think
not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled
potential. Concern yourself not
with what you tried and failed
in, but with what it is still
possible for you to do.