What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
“Depend upon it, happiness lives next door to the spirit of complete acquiescence in the will of God, and it will be easy to exercise that perfect acquiescence when we suppose the Lord Jesus to be the gardener.”
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
—Immanuel Kant
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
—Immanuel Kant
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
—Aristotle
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
—Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.
—Aristotle
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
—Aristotle
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.
—George Washington
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
Is it misery to love God? To give Him my heart who alone is worthy of it? Nay, it is the truest happiness; indeed, the only true happiness which is to be found under the sun.
—John Wesley
For with the Redeemer’s birth, peace, and all kind of happiness, come down to dwell on earth: yea, the overflowings of Divine good will and favour are now exercised toward men.
—John Wesley
You know that in seeking happiness from riches, you are only striving to drink out of empty cups. And let them be painted and gilded ever so finely, they are empty still.
—John Wesley
Happy, happy souls! which the grace of God has visited, ‘has brought out of darkness into his marvellous light’, and ‘from the power of Satan unto God’.
—William Wilberforce
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
—Mark Twain
How wonderful that a private man should have such an influence on the temporal and eternal happiness of millions; literally, millions on millions yet unborn! O God, make me more earnest for Thy glory; and may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord.
—William Wilberforce
These men would barter comfort for greatness. In their vain reveries they forget that a nation consists of individuals, and that true national prosperity is no other than the multiplication of particular happiness.
—William Wilberforce
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
—Cicero
That Christian is a happy one who has found a company of true believers in whose heavenly fellowship he can live & love & labor.
— AW Tozer
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
—Cicero
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
—Marcus Aurelius
To complete the happiness of the redeemed; Christ is not only made of God unto them wisdom and righteousness, the one curing our ignorance, the other our guilt; but he is made sanctification also, to relieve us against the dominion and pollutions of our corruptions.
—John Flavel