Inspirational Quotes on Happiness

“All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.”

“Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.”

“As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?”

“The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.”

“Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.”

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.”

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”

“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.”

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

“The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water.”

“Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only (upon) the Beloved who will never pass away.”

“God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn... That is why it is no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion.”

“When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.”

“Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.”

“All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

“I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.”