Quotes about Happiness

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

One reason for this ability to cope with disaster is that nothing ever happens to us except what happens in our minds. Unhappiness is an inward, not an outward, thing. It is as independent of circumstances as is happiness. Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

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

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

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.