Quotes about Happiness

That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

And joy, Grandfather would remind me, joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?

Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.