Quotes about Happiness

Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. Conscience cannot stand much violence.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little kinks.

The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.

God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless "saint." Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

Our hearts will be where our joys are.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.