Quotes About Happiness

Take your pleasures seriously.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.

LOOK TO THIS DAY. For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In Its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your existence; The Bliss of Growth; The Glory of Action; The Splendor of Beauty For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, and Every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day! — From the Sanscrit.

15:11 — "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full." The Word of God, living and growing within us, produces lasting and increasing joy. A lack of joy in a Christian's life often can be traced to a lack of concentrated devotional time in God's Word or disobedience.

Rejoice always. . . . In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16, 18

fact, you cannot keep it hidden very long. This is because attitudes like bitterness and jealousy are written in the eyes. If we look closely, we can see joy and happiness on the face of a person who is truly content. Likewise, there usually will be a sense of tenseness or a distance within the eyes of those who allow these feelings to gather within their lives. Anger and bitterness are written on a person's countenance. How

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

Allowing people the freedom to pursue their own interests (within the limits of just conduct) is the best and only sustainable way to achieve societal progress. For individuals to develop and have a chance at happiness, they must be free to make their own choices and mistakes, rather than be forced to accept choices made for them by others.

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

Ice cream is happiness on a cone, with sprinkles.

There's nothing wrong with me that a little ice cream won't fix.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

Happy is he who still loves something that he loved in the nursery: he has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

'Make somebody happy today!' Each morning that motto repeat, and life that was gloomy and gray at once becomes pleasant and sweet.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.