Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. What right have we human beings to happiness?
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
Greatest happiness of the greatest number.
There is probably no greater happiness in this world than that derived from writing, in a void, for pure pleasure - to see whether places and people, speech and action, can be fixed on paper and then, like a lesser divine creation, rise from that paper and live
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
