Quotes about Happiness
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
— Samuel Johnson
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
— Aristotle
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
— Walt Whitman
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.
— Charles Spurgeon
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
— Dale Carnegie
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Cicero
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
— Mark Twain
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
— Muhammad Ali
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams