Abstract Quote by Voltaire

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs…

— Andre Gide

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

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define…

— Aristotle

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way…

— Marquis de Sade

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who…

— Arnold Bennett

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what…

— Anonymous

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and the end of human existence.

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate…

— Jean Toomer

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

— Baba Amte

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but…

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is just a word, until a meaning is given to it.

— Zabi Khojazada