Character Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians, and many…

— J.P. Moreland

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” —Socrates”

— Rachel Jonat

“Every soul seeks happiness, Socrates believes, and there is a clearly defined path to achieving happiness, though many don’t choose to take it. The…

— Pearson Education

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“When we cannot find joy in our circumstances, we can find joy in God who is unchanged and unchanging. We can rejoice, not in…

— Katie Davis Majors

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout…

— Aristotle

“I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is…

— Charles Dickens

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness…

— Samuel Johnson

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell