Quotes About Happiness

But having gotten what we had always wanted, we find we have not gotten what we wanted at all. We are less fulfilled than ever

The first question in the Westminster Shorter Catechism is "What is the chief end of man?" What is the final purpose? What is the main thing about us? Where are we going, and what will we do when we get there? The answer is "To glorify God and enjoy him forever.

happy, or how to be happy. He simply and unmistakably is happy. None of his circumstances contribute to his joy: He wrote from a jail cell, his work was under attack by competitors, and after twenty years or so of hard traveling in the service of Jesus, he was tired and would have welcomed some relief.

One of the most interesting and remarkable things Christians learn is that laughter does not exclude weeping. Christian joy is not an escape from sorrow. Pain and hardship still come, but they are unable to drive out the happiness of the redeemed.

It announces the existence of a people who assemble to worship God and disperse to live to God's glory, whose lives are bordered on one side by a memory of God's acts and the other by hope in God's promises, and who along with whatever else is happening are able to say, at the center, "We are one happy people.

The hunger problem is not going to be solved by government or by industry but in church, among Christians who learn a different way to pursue happiness.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Afraid to be happy. Content to be sad.

Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.