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Happiness Quotes by William Lyon Phelps
- If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it…
- Real happiness is not dependent on external things.
- Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness…
- The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
- Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the…
- The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and…
- The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
- Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
- Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good…
- I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
- The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
- If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it…
- The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love…
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