Quotes about Happiness
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
— George H. W. Bush
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
— Kathleen Norris
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
— Anais Nin
I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.
— Elie Wiesel
It's a laugh that comes from beyond happiness and sadness. From beyond faith and anger. It's a laugh that only the dead can appreciate.
— Elie Wiesel
I have a son your age," he began, "but he's not at all like you. He's fair-haired, strong, and healthy. He likes to eat, drink, go to the pictures, laugh, sing, and go out with the girls. He has none of your anxiety, your unhappiness.
— Elie Wiesel
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
— Elisabeth Elliot
There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If God loves me, Hell make me happy". Well, yes and no. Happy isnt the word, really. Its joy, a far better thing. Not a sentiment, not mere "feeling good", but something that can never be taken away.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
— Elizabeth George
A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.
— Elizabeth George