Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

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

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is best defined by its antonym, which is less 'unhappiness' than 'anxiety.' Anyone who is not oppressed by intolerable worry or grievous pain is almost certainly happy, whether rich or poor, well or ill, successful or frustrated.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

I enjoy my life.

I enjoy my life very much.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I am, more than anything else, happy.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.