Quotes About Happiness

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ?He who is content.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

a garden in which the Beloved takes great delight. What do you think a place might be like that such a king—so powerful and wise, so pure and filled with all good things—would find so delightful? I

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

I'm glad my first date is with you, Nate," she said as we started out of the house. "In a lot of ways, it feels like coming home." "I was thinking the same thing.

A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.