Inspirational Quotes on Happiness

“Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty.”

“No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.”

“God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.”

“When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ”

“No one is really happy merely because he has what he wants, but only if he wants things he ought to want.”

“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.”

“In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character, and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline.”

“There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.”

“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”

“If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.”

“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

“All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

“Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.”