Quotes About Happiness

A joyful heart makes a face cheerful, but a sad heart produces a broken spirit. Proverbs 15:13

Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself. Revelation 19:7

Happy are the people who know the joyful shout; Lord, they walk in the light of Your presence. Psalm 89:15

How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? Deuteronomy 33:29

I believe practically every little girl has at least four dreams, which are the topics of the next four chapters: (1) to be a bride, (2) to be beautiful, (3) to be fruitful (which we usually define as having children), and (4) to live happily ever after.

heart with greater joy than when my grain and new wine abound! (Ps. 4:7)

Soul satisfaction ensures abundant life on earth.

Happy are the people whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. Psalm 84:5

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

Put your problems into perspective and it usually turns out things aren't nearly so bad. And when they are, look to those memories of happy times. Keep some happiness on reserve for those rainy days!

Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.

Stephanie and I got married publicly on the beach, in front of friends and family, and the local police shut down the highway for us to cross the street back to my cousin's house. Cars backed up for miles, and everybody in town cheered.

When I'm on the pitch, I'm happy. I can shut everything else out.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.