Quotes about Happiness
Love can bring us happiness and peace as long as we love in such a way that we don't make a net to confine ourselves and others. We can tell the correct way to love because, when we love correctly, we don't create more suffering.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When desire stops, there is no more fear. We are then truly free, peaceful, and happy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
True happiness does not reside in the ill-considered consumption of goods paid for by the suffering, famine, and death of others, but in a life enlightened by the feeling of a constant responsibility for one's neighbor.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
— CS Lewis
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
— Joyce Meyer
He that fears death loses the joys of life.
— Jan Hus
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
— Gordon Hinckley
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
— Karl Barth
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
— Karl Barth
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky