Socrates

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

I love people who make me laugh.

I’ve found happiness in my work, but not in my private life. I had to take from my private life to make my public life successful. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. I was happy in Cardiff. I had a great time. Every Thursday there was a factory club; darts, dancing. I was happy until success entered my life, and then it was all downhill. Success spoilt me. It took away my happiness. My success became a barrier with my family. They couldn’t relate to me, and I couldn’t relate to them.