Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Joy is your birthright.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.