Quotations About Happiness

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
- Erasmus

I have learnt to seek my happiness in limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
- Immanuel Kant

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
- Lydia Maria Child

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
- Sir J. Stephen

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
- John Balguy

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
- J. Petit Senn

Great efforts from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
- William Ellery Channing

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
- Alexander Pope

To be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content.
- James Hurdis

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.
- J. Paul F. Richter

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say --
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- John Dryden

Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest
Who in his home finds peace.
- Goethe

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
- Epictetus