Happiness Quotes

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions without anxious desire for the future."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"A man is as miserable as he has convinced himself he is."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The fullness of joy is to see God."

"The pursuit of happiness is the root of unhappiness."

"A person's own self is the greatest impediment to their happiness."

"The good life does not require luxury; it requires virtue."

"The key to happiness is duty fulfilled."

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal happiness can be achieved without understanding spiritual happiness."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Unhappiness comes from the desire for a different life than the one you're living."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires and a richness of simple satisfactions."

"Pleasure is the absence of pain in the body and confusion in the soul."

"When ambition dies, contentment can finally be born."

"When you cease wanting what you do not have, you begin to truly enjoy what you do."

"The pursuit of happiness and the attainment of happiness are often traveling in opposite directions."

"When pleasure becomes habitual, it ceases to be pleasure and becomes mere routine."

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

"Happiness for this moment is enough."

"Make happiness the priority, not time and money."

"Happiness comes not from external possessions, but from internal peace."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions."

"Excessive joy produces what excessive sorrow does—insensibility."

"Money gives power, but only virtue gives happiness."

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

"Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier."

"The source of all unhappiness is the gap between expectations and reality."