“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
Seneca
AcceptanceStoicism
Happiness Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HAPPINESS
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.
“Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.”
Horace
Present MomentGratitude
“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year.”
Horace
GratitudeSeize The Day
“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.”
William Shakespeare
ContentmentRest
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
Desiderius Erasmus
Self AcceptanceAuthenticity
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.”
David Hume
PurposePhilosophy
“Happiness consists in tranquillity and enjoyment.”
Adam Smith
PeaceEnjoyment
“The beginning is always today.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
New BeginningsPresent Moment
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
Walt Whitman
JoyPurpose
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain
FunnyHappiness
“The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.”
G. K. Chesterton
GratitudeLove
“But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
The Bible (Psalm 37:11)
MeeknessPeace
“Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.”
The Bible (Psalm 100:2)
WorshipJoy
“For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 31:13)
ComfortHope
“Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.”
The Bible (Luke 6:21)
HopeComfort
“The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.”
The Bible (Psalm 19:8)
FaithJoy
“I delight to do thy will, O my God.”
The Bible (Psalm 40:8)
DevotionJoy
“Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy.”
The Bible (Psalm 43:4)
WorshipJoy
“The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.”
The Bible (Proverbs 10:22)
BlessingWealth
“Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:22)
WorkContentment
“Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
The Bible (John 16:24)
PrayerJoy
“And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.”
The Bible (Acts 13:52)
JoyFaith
“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”
The Bible (Psalm 146:5)
HopeFaith
“Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.”
The Bible (Job 8:21)
LaughterHope
“But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create.”
The Bible (Isaiah 65:18)
JoyCreation