Beast Quote by Anonymous

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it…

— Daniel Boone

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

— Josef Pieper

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims…

— Marquis de Sade

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

— Aristotle

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

— Honore de Balzac

Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who…

— Norm MacDonald

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

— Margaret Cavendish

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

— Andre Gide

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness-…

— Charles Baudelaire

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

— Joseph Butler

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

— William Osler