Quotes about Happiness
At present, likewise, there are among Christians new Stoics who think it a vice not only to groan and weep, but even to be sad or upset. And indeed, these ridiculous ideas generally come from idle men.
— John Calvin
Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)
— John Donne
The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better.
— Dennis Prager
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
— Helen Keller
Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
— Joyce Meyer
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.
— Deepak Chopra
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
— Charles Dickens
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
— Aristotle