“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
More from Aristotle on Happiness
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
“The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.”
“Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
John Stuart Mill
5 quotes“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”