Happiness quotes

Discover the true essence of Happiness with our inspiring quotes - a collection of profound wisdom and uplifting words that ignite joy, positivity, and contentment within your soul. Explore our quotes and embrace a life filled with happiness!

Live your life how you want, but don’t confuse drama with happiness.

- Ron Swanson

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

- Epicurus

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

- Epicurus

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

- Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

- Epicurus

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

- Epicurus

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

- Epicurus

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

- Epicurus

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

- Epicurus

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

- Epicurus

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

- Epicurus

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

- Epicurus

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

- Epicurus

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

- Epicurus

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

- Epicurus

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

- Epicurus

By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul.

- Epicurus

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

- Epicurus

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

- Epicurus

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

- Gisele Bundchen

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

- Storm Jameson

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

- Epictetus

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

- Samuel Johnson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

- John Grierson

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

- Anthony Hopkins

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

- Albert Camus

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

- George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

- Edward Gibbon

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

- William S. Burroughs