Quotes about Happiness
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
— Anonymous
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
— Samuel Johnson
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
— Marianne Williamson
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
— Epictetus
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.
— Epicurus
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
— Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson