Inspirational Quotes on Happiness

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

“I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.”

“It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.”

“No man in the world should be so happy as a man of God. It is one continual source of gladness. He can look up and say, "God is my Father, Christ is my Saviour, and the Church is my mother."”

“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.”

“The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.'”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“Christ's life unfolds, in part, as we learn to appreciate the gifts He has given us. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. (For example) The husband or wife who has Christ as their life, comes to their spousal relationship already satisfied. They do not come continually looking to made happy by another person's attention; they bring Christ's life to their spouse.”

“The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.”

“No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.”

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”

“Happy is he who still loves something 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.”

“There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.”

“The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.”

“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.”

“The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.”