Quotes About Happiness

Although, actually, what more-momentous instant is there in life than being in bed with the person you feel is right? Really, really right?

Everything inside me has shifted. I'm stronger. Not only am I able to let go, I'm happy to let go. I'm focused on the future.

The happiest life is to be without thought

count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.

Keep your eyes on that last days, on your dying. Happiness and peace, they were not yours unless at death you can look back on your life and say I lived, I did not suffer.

Rose the joint evil that is now o'erflowing. And the old happiness in that past day Was truly happy, but the present hour Hath pain, crime, ruin:—whatsoe'er of ill Mankind have named, not one is absent here.

Of happiness the chiefest part IS a wise heart

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life's border, free from pain.

The happiest life consists of ignorance, Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice. --SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

I know I please where I must please the most.

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation.

Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles

does there exist, is there a man on earth who seizes more joy than just a dream, a vision?

até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes de ele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.