Quotes about Happiness
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
- Robert Wright
The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.
- Leonard Sweet
Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt
- Lisa Bevere
The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
- Charles Spurgeon
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
- John Adams
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
- George Eliot
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
- George Washington
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
- St. Thomas Aquinas