“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”
See You at the Top (2000)
“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“The essence of happiness consists in an act of the intellect.”
(Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica) … What is implicit in this sentence? This is implicit: the fulfillment of existence takes place in the manner in which we become aware of reality; the whole energy of our being is ultimately directed toward attainment of insight. The perfectly happy person, the one whose thirst has been finally quenched, who has attained beatitude—this person is the one who sees. The happiness, the quenching, the perfection, consists in this seeing.
Source: Happiness and Contemplation (1958), p. 58
“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 4, “The Value of Suffering” (p. 82)
“TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.”
"A Dialogue" (after 1695), as quoted in The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170
Context: TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. Thus the habit of loving someone is nothing other than BENEVOLENCE by which we want the good of others, not for the profit that we gain from it, but because it is agreeable to us in itself.
CHARITY is a general benevolence. And JUSTICE is charity in accordance with wisdom. … so that one does not do harm to someone without necessity, and that one does as much good as one can, but especially where it is best employed.
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
