Happiness Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every…

— Samuel Johnson

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

— Coco Chanel

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and…

— Bertrand Russell

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

— Stephen King

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

— Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

— Carl Sandburg

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when…

— Theodore Dreiser

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

— Anonymous

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not…

— Robert Walser