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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf





Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell / 





Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust





Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell





Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus of Ephesus





It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama





Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill





Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw





A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard





Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer





The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin





If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus





What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud





Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant





Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine





We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac





Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven





Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi





There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus





The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer





The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo





I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Wilhelm von Humboldt / 





Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle





The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt





It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus





Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Augustine of Hippo





We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw






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