Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.