Quotes About Happiness

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

May all beings be well. May all beings be happy. May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings be liberated through the unwavering knowlege of who they truly are.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Indeed the best thing about happiness itself," Lewis writes, "is that it liberates you from thinking about happiness—as the greatest pleasure that money can give us is to make it unnecessary to think about money . .

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

It's our responsibility to create our life's work in something we are passionate about because that is the most effective way we can create happiness in our life. A life's work in "that something" is the best path to challenge us and it's the most effective way to serve others.

What I found in my search for meaning was this: It's our responsibility to create our life's work in something we are passionate about because that is the most effective way we can create happiness in our life. A life's work in "that something" is the best path to challenge us and it's the most effective way to serve others.

happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.