Happiness Quotes

"Asceticism is the enemy of true happiness."

"Happiness is not a luxury but a fundamental human right."

"The right to happiness is universal; the duty to promote it is collective."

"Happiness consists in the satisfaction of natural and necessary desires."

"The greatest pleasure is the knowledge that one has acted rightly."

"Happiness is not the reward of virtue but the practice of virtue."

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him."

"Comparison is the thief of joy and the mother of despair."

"The unhappy man is never satisfied wherever he is."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"Dance as if no one is watching. Love as if it's all you have. Work as if you don't need the money."

"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

"Happiness is not the highest good; virtue is."

"Material abundance creates the possibility for human flourishing and spiritual development."

"Happiness is not the goal; growth is."

"The happiness of nations depends upon the virtue of their citizens, not their wealth."

"The pursuit of pleasure without purpose leads to hollow and transient satisfaction."

"The happiness of life depends more on inward calm than external circumstances."

"Happiness increases as we align our actions with our deepest convictions."

"Some people are born to be happy."

"Sudden joys and peace of mind are not what we should expect from great and sublime pursuits."

"There is no station in life in which a man cannot be happy."

"To be unhappy is not to live; it is merely to exist."

"Unhappiness is the result of a discord between what we desire and what we possess."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"Rational conduct is not exclusively either productive of human happiness or destructive of it."

"The greatest good for the greatest number."

"Utility is the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being."

"The happiness which is made the object of human life must be an existence made up of few and transitory pleasures."

"True happiness comes from living according to virtue and reason."