Inspirational Quotes on Happiness

“If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.”

“Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.”

“Let us be sure that our delights exclude not the presence of God: we may please ourselves so long as we do not displease Him.”

“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”

“There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

“Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.”

“Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.”

“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”

“If a man would lead a happy life, let him but seek a sure object for his trust, and he shall be safe: "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." He hath laid up his confidence in God, therefore his heart is kept in an equal poise.”

“God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it. He has no design upon us, but to make us happy.”

“Sometimes the joy which floods the soul overflows into the spirit, inducing the believer to think he is the happiest person in the world; at other times sorrow pervades and he becomes the most unhappy person. A soulish Christian frequently encounters such experiences.”

“Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.”

“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”

“Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.”

“It is a greater glory to us that we are allowed to serve God, than it is to him that we offer him that service. He is not rendered happy by us; but we are made happy by him. He can do without such earthly servants; but we cannot do without such a heavenly Master.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness wants what you get.”

“Wherefore also Cleanthes, in the second book, On Pleasure, says that Socrates everywhere teaches that the just man and the happy are one and the same, and execrated the first man who separated the just from the useful, as having done an impious thing. For those are in truth impious who separate the useful from that which is right' according to the law.”

“Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.”

“When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.”