Quotes about Happiness
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
- Walt Whitman
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.
- Charles Spurgeon
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
- Charles Spurgeon
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
- Dale Carnegie
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- Mark Twain
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
- Muhammad Ali
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- John Quincy Adams
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
- GK Chesterton
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford