Quotes about Happiness
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Love, and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
— Anonymous
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
— AW Tozer
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
— Washington Irving
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
— Dorothy Sayers
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
— Samuel Johnson
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
— Anonymous
Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.
— JM Coetzee
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
— JM Coetzee
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
— Jack Kerouac