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Happiness Quotes by George Santayana
- Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
- Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception…
- It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
- If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
- Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of…
- Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
- The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
- A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of…
- Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- 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