Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

Only the soul that loves is happy

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

I want to love life.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

I feel there's a constant sense of happiness and gratefulness in me.

I can be a bit serious because I'm always focused on my work, but when Meri's around I feel so relaxed. My body and soul are like, 'Ah, OK, everything is fine.' I know I am meant to be with her. It feels right.

I am very happy for anyone who is in love.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Love is the action of soul satisfaction.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.