gladness

And in Augie March: “I expect happiness and gladness have always been the same.”

Happiness is the wrong word—it sets an outsized goal for itself the way gladness, contentment, and satisfaction simply do not.

And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards.

Then there is joy and gladness, and thanksgivings to God in a procession to the mountain of which I have spoken above.

And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness shall be turned to mourning.

She had never ceased to smile, but there was an expression of sudden fierce gladness in her eyes.

The church of Smyrna celebrated the anniversary of their martyred bishops passion with joy and gladness as his natal day.