A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
A sure way to lose happiness | Bette Davis
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope quote on Happiness
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ‘Let no one be called happy till his death;’ to which I would add, ‘Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Death, Happiness
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Boredom, Happiness
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Folly, Health, Happiness
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
Arthur Schopenhauer | Happiness
The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
Bhagavad Gita – Happiness, Distress
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
Bhagavad Gita – Happiness
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are – they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler – Happiness, Misery
I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other – I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so
Samuel Butler – Happiness, Family
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Seneca – Happiness
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca – Happiness, Wretchedness
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
Voltaire – Happiness, Pleasure
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Henry David Thoreau – Happiness
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
