Quotes about Happiness
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
— Laurence Sterne
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
— Epictetus
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— GK Chesterton
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Men die and they are not happy.
— Albert Camus
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
— Charles Dickens
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I'm glad my first date is with you, Nate," she said as we started out of the house. "In a lot of ways, it feels like coming home." "I was thinking the same thing.
— Terri Blackstock
As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.
— Terri Savelle Foy
joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Nothing whatsoever but the love of Jesus could have made me face these difficulties and others which followed, for I had to purchase my happiness by heavy trials.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The life of every missionary abounds in crosses," said Théophane Vénard. And again: "True happiness consists in suffering, and in order to live we must die.
— St. Therese of Lisieux