Quotes about Happiness
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
— Dennis Prager
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
— Stephanie Perkins
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
— CS Lewis
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
— Aristotle
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— St. Augustine
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
— Stephen Covey
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
— Thomas Merton