“Supreme happiness is gained via contentment.”
Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
§ 2.42
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
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“The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Fifth Talk in The Oak Grove, 11 June 1944" http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=173&chid=4529&w=%22To+understand+oneself+requires+patience%22&s=Text, J. Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440611, Vol. III, p. 219 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables
“Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Third Selection (1986)
James Saurin (1759–1842) Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David
(KJV)<br>Variant translations and selections:<br>Happy is the man that has found wisdom, and the man that gets discernment, for having it as gain is better than having silver as gain and having it as produce than gold itself. It is more precious than corals, and all other delights of yours cannot be made equal to it. Length of days is in its right hand; in its left hand there are riches and glory. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its roadways are peace. It is a tree of life to those taking hold of it, and those keeping fast hold of it are to be called happy.<br> Proverbs 3:13-18; New World Translation http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/pr/chapter_003.htm#bk13 <br class="br">Context: My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian