Quotes About Happiness

To choose joy does not mean to choose happy feelings or an artificial atmosphere of hilarity. But it does mean the determination to let whatever takes place bring us one step closer to the God of life.

We often say, "I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not really joyful or peaceful, but I just don't know how things can be different, and I guess I have to be realistic and accept my life as it is." It is this mood of resignation that prevents us from actively searching for the life of the Spirit.

The reward of choosing joy is joy itself.

Jesus lived this joy of the Father's house to the full.

With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens,—a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

If you want to be happy, be!

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures.

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit comfortably on your shoulder.

for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;

Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara

petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.