Quotes About Happiness

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

No one is happy all his life long.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

Do what you love, the money will follow.