Certain Quote by Meister Eckhart

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

— Alexander Pope

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just…

— Sigmund Freud

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing…

— John Campbell Shairp

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

— Aristotle

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

— Thomas a Kempis

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

— Thales

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external…

— Paul Robeson

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca