Quotes about Happiness
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
- Dennis Prager
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
- Stephanie Perkins
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- CS Lewis
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
- Aristotle
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
- St. Augustine
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
- Stephen Covey
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
- Thomas Merton
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
- Samuel Johnson
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
- Ezra Taft Benson