Quotes About Happiness

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause ( Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium).

Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...

When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

The misery of the cuckold. It springs from his pride, from a false conception of honor and of happiness, and from a love foolishly turned from God to be attributed to creatures. It is ever the worshipping animal deluded with its idol.

A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.

Anything that keeps you from singing is foolishness, unless it's laughter.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason.

A woman who is loved always has success.

Globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness.

A joyful mind will never live in isolation.

To love and win is the best thing.

Obla dee obla dah life goes on...

I don't care too much for money For money can't buy me love

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn't know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.

I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.