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Quotes About Happiness

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.
~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
~ Samuel Johnson
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
~ James Drummond Burns
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
~ Bible
The only joy in the world is to begin.
~ Cesare Pavese
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Cast away care; he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day, nor can he buy tomorrow.
~ Thomas Dekker
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
~ Anonymous
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
~ George Matthew Adams
Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.
~ Ovid
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
~ Epicurus
Glee! The great storm is over!
~ Emily Dickinson
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
~ Lord Byron
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
~ Author Unknown
Any home can be a castle when the king and the queen are in love.
~ Author Unknown
There is no such thing as a happy life — there are only happy days.
~ André Theuriet
Of course there is no such thing as true love, but there is an imitation that is very pleasant.
~ E. W. Howe
Addictions — particularly nicotine and alcohol — are energy thieves. They are toxic energy that disrupts the flow and balance of your natural energy. Addictions injure the body, enslave the mind, and suppress the capacity of the human spirit to experience joy. They ruin health, happiness, and life itself.
~ Edward A. Taub, M.D.
Let your joy scream across the pain.
~ Terri Guillemets
To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food and fresh water, I knew it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn't bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen.
~ Ishmael Beah