Quotes about Happiness
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
— Anonymous
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
— William Barclay
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Happy is he that chastens himself.
— Anonymous
Better be happy than wise.
— Anonymous
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
— Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
— Mark Twain
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
— Karl Barth
Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.
— Thomas Monson