Affinity Quote by George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we…

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

— George Santayana

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

— Benjamin Franklin

“True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.”

— Charles W. Colson

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least,…

— Anonymous

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

— Titus Burckhardt

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest obstacle to our happiness is under valuing what we have, and over valuing what others have.

— Anonymous

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner…

— Matthieu Ricard

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

— Cathy Guisewite

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

— Leonardo da Vinci