Quotes about Happiness
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
— Epictetus
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
— Epicurus
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
— Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
— Epicurus
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
— Epicurus
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
— Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
— Epicurus
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus
It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.
— Epicurus
We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
— Epicurus