Quotes About Happiness

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.