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Happiness Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
- There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
- Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
- If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws…
- The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
- Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free…
- With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important…
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to…
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
- It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
- What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this…
- The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
- Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,…
- The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a…
- Money is human happiness in the abstract.
- The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
- Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely…
More Happiness Quotes
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach