If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
—Epicurus
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Post #3220
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Post #3176
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Post #3154
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
—William Cowper
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Post #3087
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
—Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Post #2822
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
—William Shakespeare
—William Shakespeare
Monday, May 06, 2019
Post #2821
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
—Francis Quarles
—Francis Quarles
Friday, October 05, 2018
Thursday, October 04, 2018
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Friday, June 02, 2017
Post #2350
Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thursday, May 04, 2017
Post #2329
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
—Aristotle
—Aristotle
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Monday, July 06, 2015
Post #1851
Happiness depends on the taste, and not on the thing; and it is by having what we like that we are made happy, and not by having what others consider likeable.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
—François de La Rochefoucauld
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Post #1768
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Post #1759
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
—Herodotus
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Post #1707
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
—James Anthony Froude
—James Anthony Froude
Monday, September 15, 2014
Post #1641
There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.
—F.W. Gunsaulus
—F.W. Gunsaulus
Friday, July 04, 2014
Post #1590
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
—Joseph Addison
—Joseph Addison
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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