The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

 

If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender compeletly to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

I now perceive one immense omission in my Psychology--the deepest principle of human nature is the curaving to be appreciated.

William James

 

The many, the most vulgar, seemingly conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.

Aristotle

 

Happiness is a sort of action

Aristotle

 

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simple growth. We are happy when we are growing.

W.B.Yeates