Quotes about Happiness
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
- Aristotle
The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.
- Tony Robbins
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
- Thomas Watson
Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness.
- Dennis Prager
The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
- Charles Spurgeon
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
- John Piper
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.
- Tracie Peterson
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
- Albert Camus
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
- Mark Twain
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
- Timothy Keller
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
- CS Lewis