Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

It was worth it. You looked... happy.

People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Happiness is a state of activity.

You find happiness where you find it.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.