Happiness Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the…

— William Hazlitt

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

— David Hume

The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

— Samuel Johnson

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey

Happiness means quiet nerves.

— W. C. Fields

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a…

— Henry Mackenzie

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

— Robert A. Burton

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according…

— David Hume

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt