Quotes About Happiness

This again, tallies with what Goethe says in Wilhelm Meister: The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Since love is a deception practiced by nature, marriage is the attrition of love and must be disillusioning. Only a philosopher can be happy in marriage and philosophers do not marry.

The wise man does not seek pleasure but freedom from care and pain.

To be happy one must be as ignorant as youth, youth thinks that willing and striving are joys - it does not yet discover the unending character of desire and the fruitless of fulfillment, It does not yet see the inevitableness of defeat

Money is human happiness in abstracto; consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money.

Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good conscience–these are privileges which no rank or wealth can make up for or replace.

A happy life is impossible, the highest that man can achieve is a heroic life.

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. In other words, his center of gravity is not in himself; it is constantly changing its place, with every wish and whim.

una existencia cuya verdadera valía hay que ponderar solo por la ausencia de dolor y no por la presencia de placeres y mucho menos de lujos.

as experience in fact shows that those purely rational characters commonly called practical philosophers (and rightly so, since real, i.e., theoretical, philosophers translate life into concepts, while they translate concepts into life) are surely the happiest

En büyük mutluluk, kiÅŸiliktir.

Si poseyera aquello que me falta, sería incapaz de disfrutarlo y me resultaría un estorbo

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence, he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself — so long as other people leave him alone.

The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.

felicidad perfecta es inalcanzable, podamos llegar a esa felicidad relativa que consiste en la ausencia del dolor.

Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them.

Voltaire'in, Mutluluk yaln?zca bir düÅŸtür, ac? ise gerçektir sözü gerçekten de olduÄŸu gibi doÄŸru deÄŸil, bir o kadar yanl?? olmal?yd?. Buna göre yaÅŸam?ndan mutluluk öÄŸretisi aç?s?ndan bir sonuç ç?karmak isteyen kimse, hesab?n?, tatt??? zevklere göre deÄŸil atlatt??? belalara göre yapmal?d?r.

Ac?s?z bir duruma bir de can s?k?nt?s?n?n yokluÄŸu eklenirse, iÅŸte o zaman dünyevi mutluluÄŸa büyük ölçüde eriÅŸilmiÅŸtir: Çünkü geri kalan bir hayaldir.

To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness.

No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.

Existe apenas um único erro inato, que é o de acreditarmos que vivemos para sermos felizes.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health

The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.

Aristotle says, To be happy means to be self-sufficient.