Quotes about Happiness
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
- Oswald Chambers
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
- AW Tozer
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
- CS Lewis
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
- Jonathan Edwards
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
- Aristotle
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
- John Mayer
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
- JC Ryle
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
- Marianne Williamson
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
- William Law
Your happiness depends on you alone.
- Aristotle
The test of happiness is gratitude.
- GK Chesterton