“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
More from Bertrand Russell on Happiness
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”
“...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”
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.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
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...”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 quotes“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”
André Gide
5 quotes“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve...”