Quotes About Happiness

The words joy and rejoicing occur eighteen times in this book. So read this heavenly letter of joy and be encouraged.

4Make God the utmost delight and pleasure of your life,c and he will provide for you what you desire the most.

The wisdom of Solomon:a When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father.

27Living in the worship and awe of God will bring you many years of contented living. So how could the wicked ever expect to have a long, happy life?

laughed and played, so happy with what he had made, while finding my delight in the children of men.

24When a father observes his child living in godliness, he is ecstatic with joy—nothing makes him prouder!

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

So what's this "sad" business mean, anyway? I mean, how often do you feel like doing it?' 'Sad? Oh, sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear.' 'You keep on doing it? Is that why you feel compelled to collect all these old secondhand sunsets?

Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear.

I feel happy or sad. I love people. Therefore I am human. Isn't that so?

Life on the big slope was endurable, and sometimes more than just endurable, for the human spirit was a genius for making mountains out of molehills of happiness.

People are beautiful. Life can be, too.

I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

That was my mother's policy: Feel free, feel welcome. Be happy.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

There's probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Home is where my mom is.

Have you ever noticed how nice people are at the car wash?! Maybe it's just me, but it makes me happy. Weird, I know!

Under contract!" she shouted. "Under contract!" Dawn sounded so happy, and I thought of my mother, who always distrusted loud public expressions of happiness. "Those who loudly insist on their happiness are rarely happy." Those were my mother's words. But Dawn's chanting of "Under contract!" made me also think of these words by John Calvin: "What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound?