Quotes about Happiness
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.
— John Tillotson
Jesus did not begin His ministry by some great work before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. At a household gathering in a little Galilean village His power was put forth to add to the joy of a wedding feast. Thus He showed His sympathy with men, and His desire to minister to their happiness. In the wilderness of temptation He Himself had drunk the cup of woe. He came forth to give to men the cup of blessing, by His benediction to hallow the relations of human life.
— Ellen White
Time—that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works.
— Ellen White
Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the happiest people in the world.—My Life Today, p. 161.
— Ellen White
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
— Ellen Glasgow
That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.
— Elton John
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
— Viktor E. Frankl
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
— Roseanne Barr
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
— Jonathan Edwards