Quotes About Happiness

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals