Quotes on Happiness

Collection of Ancient Quotes about happiness. Happiness comes from having control of desires and living a life in accordance with nature.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

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

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

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Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

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Where a man is against his will, there his is imprisoned. Desire things to happen exactly as they happen and you will always be free.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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The secret to happiness isn’t gaining more but learning to enjoy less.

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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature.

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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

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Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.

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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher

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Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

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There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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Wine, women and food give gladness to the heart.

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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.

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

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Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

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Not him with great possessions should you in truth call blest; with better right does he claim the name of happy man who realizes how to make use of the gods’ gifts wisely, is skilled to meet harsh poverty and endure, as one who dreads dishonor far more than death; a man like that for friends beloved, or for his country fears not to perish.

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The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

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Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

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Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

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The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won’t sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

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