Happiness Quote by Herbert Spencer

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

— Anonymous

The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment.

— Anonymous

“When we pursue happiness directly, in terms of trying to buy things, gain love, engage in behaviors that make us happy—we fail. Instead, we…

— Timothy McKinney

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

— John Tillotson

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

“Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things,…

— Stephen Richards

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

— George Hodges (theologian

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

— John Lubbock

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away…

— Immanuel Kant