Avoidance Quote by Epicurus

“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly…

— Ayn Rand

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable…

— Marcus Aurelius

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

— Bertrand Russell

“Happiness comes from your inner self , it's an internal possession of clear unconscious towards healthy consciousness..”

— Jihad Tym

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

— Martin Seligman

“Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental…

— Rob Brezsny

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though…

— Joseph Addison

“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like…

— Ved Vyasa

“You can find a temporary happiness in things like drinking liquor or smoking a joint. But the true one comes when you start embarking…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And…

— George Crabbe