Quotes about Happiness
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
— John Piper
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.
— Tracie Peterson
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
— Albert Camus
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
— Mark Twain
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
— Timothy Keller
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
— CS Lewis
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
— Victor Hugo
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.
— Thomas Paine
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
— Abraham Lincoln
There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.
— Nick Vujicic