Companion Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

— Denis Waitley

“happiness is an exclusive quality of the soul. Thus, a body  that  attains  all  the  material  successes  it  longs  for—money,  power,  fame, etc.—often belongs…

— Rashad Khalifa

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

— Benjamin De Hoyos

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on…

— Albert Ellis

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

— Anonymous

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it;…

— Anonymous

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

— Aristotle

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

— Aristotle

“Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of…

— Aristotle

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

— William Osler

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

— Mary Baker Eddy