Quotes About Happiness

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.

happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.

Puterile lumii sint trei: inetligenta, forta si fericirea.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope.

Natura se amuza citeodata formind combinatii caraghioase. Sint unii care-ntr-una casca ochii la nimicuri si rid ca papagalii in fata unui simplu cintaret din cimpoi; iar altii au o infatisare asa de posomorita, incit nici macar n-ar suride auzind o gluma buna. Nu s-a spus adesea ca, in fond, spiritul cel mai limitat este cel mai fericit?

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Por sabedoria entendo a arte de tornar a vida mais agradável e feliz possível.

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

A única felicidade é a de não ter nascido.

The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man. His happiness lay both in the possession of those great qualities which won him fame, and in the opportunity that was granted him of developing them–the leisure he had to act as he pleased, to dedicate himself to his favorite pursuits. It is only work done from the heart that ever gains the laurel

striving for happiness] is like an unquenchable thirst: we may attain some brief satisfactions, some momentary release, but in the nature of things these can never be more than temporary, and then we are on the rack once more. So unhappiness, or at least dissatisfaction, is our normal state of affairs.

The negativity of well-being and happiness, in antithesis to the positivity of pain.