Quotes About Happiness

The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.

I skip for that all-over body tickle.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

Human beings are sometimes slaves to the ugly and weak sides of human nature," he told employees. "However, if you set high goals for yourselves and every day continue to reflect on them, step by step you will be more focused and make yourself a better human being, becoming a happier person for it.

You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found bewildering and a sure pathway to extravagance and foolishness. You only need to look about you among the unhappy members of the sporting set to see what happens when there is too much loose money in the bank.

A dear friend of mine recently asked me how did I find happiness after all that i have been through? After thinking about it for a while I realized that you don't find happiness, it is not hidden, it's right there out in the open. Happiness is a decision not something that is lost. You just have to recognize all that there is to be happy about and decide to be happy because everything in life is miracle.

Melayne looked across at Ysane, who was propped up in bed, nursing her new son. Bantry, beaming as proudly as if he had miraculously given birth himself, hovered nervously at the far side of the bed.

Become less suspicious of joy.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10).

Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.

God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the Object of our quest for joy. When I speak of fighting for joy, I mean joy in God, not joy without reference to God. When I speak of longing for happiness, I mean happiness in all that God is for us in Jesus, not happiness as physical or psychological experience apart from God.

The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.

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. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3).

Love is the overflow of joy in God that gladly meets the needs of others.

Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it's like powder in the shell.

Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die to draw as many people as we can into the pursuit and enjoyment of God.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS