Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

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!

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

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

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.