Care Quote by Josef Pieper

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because…

— Aristotle

“Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

— Storm Jameson

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in…

— Aristotle

“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing…

— Franklin Foer

“While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness is a part of our freedom

— Rupa Kundu

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

— Epictetus

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from…

— Aristotle

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit;…

— John Tillotson

“The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit…

— Hiyamedia

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

— Harriet Martineau