Happiness

Happiness belongs to the just soul: the well-ordered life is the only life worth living.

Happiness is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, over a complete life.

Happiness is freedom, and freedom is wanting only what is in your power.

Our hearts are restless until they rest in God; true happiness is enjoyment of the eternal.

Perfect happiness is the beatific vision; imperfect happiness is virtuous activity in this life.

Happiness is living appropriately: accepting one's own ordinary humanity without pretense.

Happiness is the greatest pleasure we are capable of, and the pursuit of it is the spring of all action.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may become worthy of happiness.

Happiness, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, is the sole criterion of right action.

Happiness is not included in the plan of creation; civilization itself is bought at the price of our discontent.