Quotes on Personal Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.