Collection of aphorisms and phrases on finding happiness, quotes on philosophical concepts and reflections on the theme of how to be happy in your everyday life.
Phrases about finding happiness
- Happiness and the rainbow are never seen on one's home, but only on that of others.
- Any happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest mistake falsifies it, the slightest hesitation cracks it, the slightest coarseness disfigures it, the slightest foolishness degrades it.
- Life is made up of insignificant little happinesses, similar to tiny flowers. It is not only made of great things, such as study, love, weddings, funerals. Small things happen every day, so many that they cannot keep them in mind or count them, and between them are hidden grains of barely perceptible happiness, which the soul breathes and thanks to which it lives.
- The secret of happiness is not always to do what you want, but to always want what you do.
- Happiness is always around the corner: happiness comes suddenly, regardless of situations and circumstances.
- The time has come to end the thousand-year-old fairy tale that happiness, bliss and serenity are desirable goals of life. For too long we have been made to believe, and we have naively believed, that the pursuit of happiness ultimately leads to happiness.
- Someone said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Nobody ever said that the promise was kept.
- Happiness does not depend on external events, but on the way we consider them: a man accustomed to enduring pain can not be happy.
- Men never place their happiness in what they are, but in what they hope to become; and I do not know if it is for this illusion that they can never achieve happiness, or if, precisely because they know they can never achieve it, they willingly place it in this illusion.
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, in the past attributed by the living to the dead, and today generally attributed by adults to children, and from children to adults.
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- Happiness, as it is rightly said, is made up of many small things, the most important of which is having a small brain.
- Happiness is nothing more than being healthy and having little memory.
- Happiness is where we know it has been or where we think we will find it, always and in any case elsewhere.
- Happiness is a precious wine, which seems tasteless to a vulgar palate.
- The secret of happiness is this: make sure that your interests are as numerous as possible and that your reactions to the things and people that interest you are as friendly as possible rather than hostile.
- The highest good, that is, happiness, does not seek outside means to be realized, it is an internal good and it is born entirely of itself, it becomes a slave of fate if it seeks a part of itself externally.
- Happiness should be the only condition of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Aphorisms on happiness
- The things indispensable for human happiness are simple, so simple that complicated people cannot force themselves to recognize what are the things they really miss.
- It is essential for happiness that our way of life is determined by our deep impulses and not by the accidental tastes and desires of those who by chance wanted us to be our neighbors, or even our relatives.
- Happiness has acquired a very high profile, not so much in philosophy as in more general culture. It has even become a big deal. Millions of hectares of forest have been sacrificed on his altar to make all those books that explain how to make the trick of happiness work.
- Happiness lies in knowing your limits and in loving them.
- Happiness is somehow what sets a stop to the forward flight of desire.
- Even if happiness forgets you a little, never forget it completely.
- When you take the world very seriously, you cannot know what happiness is. Happiness only happens when you have taken root in a world view that everything is nothing but a game.
- Happiness is beneficial to the body, but pain is what develops the faculties of the spirit.
- There are two ways to achieve happiness: one is to be an idiot, the other is to be.
- True happiness is in rest and not in hustle and bustle.
- Happiness is a way of seeing.
- One should be able to convince men of happiness that they ignore, even when they enjoy it.
- Happiness is real only when shared.
- Recognize happiness when it is at your feet, have the courage and the determination to lower yourself to take it in your arms and keep it. This is the intelligence of the heart.
- Happiness does not lie in being loved: this is only a satisfaction of vanity mixed with disgust. Happiness is in loving.
- We only have the happiness that we are able to understand.
- Happiness does not exist. Consequently we just have to try to be happy without.
- Many seek happiness in the same way they look for a hat: they always have it on their heads.
- Men want to make all happiness or, if this is impossible, all the unhappiness of those they love.
Quotes about happiness
- Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
- It is curious to observe what ideal of happiness men love and in which singular places they seek its source. Some seek it in heaping wealth, some in the pride of power, others in the conquests of art and literature. Few seek it in exploring their spirit or improving knowledge.
- If the time we waste to yearn for the golden and perfect fruit, we use it to commit ourselves to make it grow, we will get happiness, we will have to get it. It is guaranteed by the laws of the universe. And if the commitment requires some punishment or renunciation, then the fruit will be made even sweeter by this touch of holiness.
- Many people have a misconception of what leads to true happiness. It is not achieved through personal pleasure, but through loyalty to a worthy purpose.
- When one of the doors of happiness closes, another opens; often, however, we look so long at the door that has closed, that we don't see the other that has opened for us.
- The only wisdom is to make sure that our happiness and our mood depend only on ourselves.
- Happiness is like a butterfly: if you chase it you can never catch it, but if you keep calm it can also rest on you.
- The price of civilization's progress is paid by the reduction of happiness.
- Of course, you don't have to believe in happiness; but how would men live if they did not form some dream of happiness?
- The happiness of modern man: look at the shop windows and buy everything he can afford, in cash or in installments.
- Happiness does not consist in buying and enjoying but in wanting nothing, because it consists in being free.
- The voice of the flesh is: don't be hungry, don't be thirsty, don't be cold. Who has these things can compete in happiness also with Zeus.
- Our happiness depends not only on current joys but also on our hopes and memories. The present is enriched by the past and the future.
- You are never too young or too old for the knowledge of happiness. At any age it is nice to take care of the well-being of our soul.
- One of the great secrets of happiness is to moderate desires and love what you already have.
- True happiness is cheap: if it is expensive, it is not of good quality.
- Happiness should not be pursued, but it is a flower to be picked every day, because it is always around you. Just notice it.
- Happiness is a reward that comes to those who have not sought it.
