Joyce Meyer Quotes

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

I've got every possible thing I could want. And I wondered, 'Why am I so depressed?' I still don't know sometimes.

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

I ain't ever satisfied.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.