Quotes About Happiness

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.