Quotes about Happiness
No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
— Euripides
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
— Epicurus
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
— Marilyn Monroe
My idea was to stay in Madrid. Then, when I heard of Munich's interest, I said, 'Xabi, think what you want and where you will be happy.'
— Xabi Alonso
It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.
— Judith Durham
When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.
— Olly Alexander
The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.
— John Piper
The earth laughs in flowers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo