Happiness, happiness… There are things much greater than happiness, much deeper and, if you want to know, much more authentic.
He is not happy who wants better, but who is satisfied with what he has.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
It is characteristic of a madman to regret what he has lost and not to be happy about what remains.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
To be happy means to know, to find oneself.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
How wonderful that a private man should have such an influence on the temporal and eternal happiness of millions; literally, millions on millions yet unborn! O God, make me more earnest for Thy glory; and may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord.
—William Wilberforce
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
—Marcus Aurelius
We rowed with all our strength under the wise guidance of our father. We were hot from work and happy. Father sat with an oar in the stern – cheerful and strong. He felt like a savior of the drowning, a seafaring hero, Vasco da Gama. And although life sent him a puddle instead of an ocean, his soul was oceanic. And precisely because his soul would be enough for an entire ocean, Vasco da Gama sometimes could not stand this disproportion and sunk his ships in the tavern.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
Is happiness only an eternal, unattainable mirage?
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christ gives himself to his people to be all things to them that they need, and all things that make for their happiness.
—Jonathan Edwards
If a person only thinks about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything, he’ll never be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. Seneca
—Leo Tolstoy
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Because God is infinitely happy, he delights in the happiness of his creatures.”
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
—Socrates
Nothing weakens a person more than hope in something other than his own effort to find salvation and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
Good people will bring you happiness, bad people will reward you with experience, the worst ones will teach you a lesson, and the best ones will give you memories. Appreciate each one.
—Taras Shevchenko
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
—Thomas Jefferson
“Sin and sorrow cannot be divorced.
Holiness and happiness cannot be separated.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
—Franz Kafka
The happy man in this life needs friends.
—Thomas Aquinas
How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.
—George Whitefield
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking
—Marcus Aurelius
A wise person never wants to change his earthly life, because he’s always happy with the life he’s living.
—Leo Tolstoy