“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
More from David Hume on Happiness
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more...”
André Gide
5 quotes“To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than...”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”