“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”
More from George Santayana on Happiness
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
“I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.”
“Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
“Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
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.”
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...”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
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.”