Today, I want us to feed on a very important topic which everyone desires. I’m so delighted to provide you with 35 carefully selected quotations about Happiness for our reflection.
I hope you do love quotations as much as I do. Well, I strongly believe that whether you’re love quotations or not, that these carefully selected quotations will add to your knowledge bank. Ok let us enjoy the knowledge, ideas, experience, and warnings of the ancient wise men and women penned down about HAPPINESS.
I want us to reflect on these 35 Revelationary quotations about Happiness:
- 1. Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life BOETHIUS, The Consolation of Philosophy… https://motivationforactions.com/what-contentment-implies-and-why-it-matters/
- 2. Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as the would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over or break. JULES BARBEY D’ AUREVILLY “Le Bonheur dans le crime,”…
- 3. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. JEREMY BENTHAM. “Elogia Commonplace Books…
- 4. When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop windows. TRISTAN BERNARD …
- 5. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Ible, Proverbs 17:22/
- 6. The right to happiness is fundamental: Men live so little time and die alone. BERTOLT BRECHT. The Threepenny Opera…
- 7. What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. That’s how it is today, that’s how it’ll be forever. ..
- 8. You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. ALBERT CAMUS, The Fall (1956).
- 9. True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in. JOHN DONNE, Sermons…
- 10. It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly. EPICURUS Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers…
- 11. 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 in installments. ERICH FROMM. The Art of Loving (1956)
- 12. No man can be happy without friends, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. THOMAS FULLER, M.D. …
- 13. I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? GEORGE GISSING, “Spring,”
- 14. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Mrs, A. S. Marks, 1788.
- 15. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. HELEN KELLER, we Bereaved…
- 16. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. NIETZSCHE. “On old and New Tablets.”..
- 17. There are many roads to happiness if the god’s assent. PINDAR, Odes…
- 18. No man is happy who does not think himself so. PUBLIUS SYRUS, Moral Sayings…
- 19. The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure. RPUSSEAU
- 20. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has is unbearable. JOSEPH ROUX, Meditations of a Parish Priest…
- 21. Most people as for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any conditions. ARTUR RUBINSTEIN. News reports…
- 22. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. WILLIAM SAROYAN, News summaries, Dec. 16, 1957.
- 23. We have no right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume without producing it, GEORGE BRNRSRD SHAW, Candida…
- 24. It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep. SOPHOCLES, Ajax…
- 25. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. SOPHOCLES, Antigone…
- 26. Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappiness of another IVAN TURNGENEY, On the Eve…
- 27. I find my joy in living in the fierce and ruthless battles of lies, and my pleasure comes from learning something. AUGUST STRINDRERC, preface to Miss Jlie …
- 28. Happiness of any given life is to be measure, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering — from positive evil. SCHOPPEN HAUER. On the Sufferings of the World.”…
- 29. Unhappy is the man, though he rules the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blest, SENECA, LETTERS TO lauciliu…
- 30. Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change. BERTRAND RUSELL. Philosophy and Politics, “Unpopular Escape (1950).
- 31. No man is happy who does not think himself so. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Moral Sayings …
- 32. When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. STANISLAW LEC, Unkempt Thoughts …
- 33. I am happy and content because I think I am. ALAIN-RENE LESAGE,…
- 34. We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. MAURICE MAETERLINCK, Wisdom and Destiny…
- 35. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. ARISTOTLE. Nicomachean Ethics…
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