“But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice.”
The Bible (Psalm 5:11)
TrustJoy
Happiness Quotes
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Happiness Quotes
Read the best happiness quotes on joy, contentment and living well from Aristotle, Epictetus, Tolstoy, Thiruvalluvar, Kabir, the Gita and more. Words to brighten your day.
“For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work.”
The Bible (Psalm 92:4)
GratitudeJoy
“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
The Bible (Psalm 122:1)
WorshipJoy
“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
The Bible (John 15:11)
JoyFaith
“The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.”
Aristotle
VirtueGood Life
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
Diogenes
ContentmentSimple Living
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
Zeno of Citium
StoicismShort Quotes
“If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Confucius
PlanningWisdom
“The crow conceals not its food, but calls its kind to share it; prosperity abides with those who share like this.”
Thiruvalluvar
SharingGenerosity
“That happiness which arises from the contact of the senses with their objects, which is like nectar at first but like poison in the end, is called passionate.”
The Bhagavad Gita
PleasureSelf Control
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
MusicEmotions
“Joy and Temperance and Repose slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HealthFunny
“They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest.”
The Bible (Isaiah 9:3)
JoyCelebration
“Better than a gift given with a glad heart are sweet words spoken with a cheerful face.”
Thiruvalluvar
Kind WordsSmile
“Where is the happiness of the contented, calm-minded people to be found among the greedy who run here and there?”
The Hitopadesha
ContentmentGreed
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment.”
Chanakya
ContentmentBalance
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
Epicurus
Living WellPhilosophy
“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”
Jean de La Fontaine
FamilyFunny
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
Montesquieu
ComparisonEnvy
“Paradise is where I am.”
Voltaire
ContentmentShort Quotes
“Fools! They do not know how much more the half is than the whole.”
Hesiod
ModerationGreed
“There is no fool who is happy, and no wise man who is not.”
Cicero
WisdomHappiness
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
Seneca
Living WellTime
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
Baruch Spinoza
VirtuePhilosophy
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
Swedish Proverb
FriendshipSharing