Famous Quotes

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

Hannah Arendt on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Hannah Arendt

• "To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

• "By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."

• "This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes."

• "Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

• "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."