“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
More from François de La Rochefoucauld on Happiness
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.”
“Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
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.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including opti...”
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.”