Which philosopher said that working is the source of happiness?

Question

I remember some Greek philosopher said that working is the source of happiness (sth like this).

I want to know who said that, and I want to know the 'exact phrase', thank you^^!

Greek philosopher

Answer 1

Albert Schweitzer said, " The man who is truly happy is the one who has sought and found the way to serve."
Maybe not exactly...

Answer 2

Kahlil Gibran said Work is love made visible.

http://www.kahlil.org/prophetlp-7.html

Answer 3

Work is the source of all happiness.
- Workaholicus

Answer 4

I don't agree with that....... I think that you need to always put family and friends first before money and work. I don't know who said it but I know I've heard it before.

Answer 5

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
~ the Duchess of Windsor (when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life)

"All will be lost apart from happiness." ~Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." ~Bertrand Russell (attributed)
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." ~Aristotle
"If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more." ~Patrick Dixon
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." ~William Cowper (attributed)
"The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet." ~James Oppenheim
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~Aristotle
"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." ~Hermann Hesse
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions." ~Aristotle
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." ~Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." ~Ayn Rand (attributed)
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." ~Richard Bach (attributed)
"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open." ~ John Barrymore
"Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities." ~Aristotle, Politics X 1323
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships." ~Helen Keller
"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart." ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
"Laughing because you don't know where you are: that is happiness."--Aeric Maddox
"I don't know if he'll be happy, but it's certain he'll be happy about it." ~ Alon Mizrahi
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." ~Thomas Paine
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~Helen Keller
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness." ~André Gide
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible." ~Bertrand Russell
"The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!" ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip)
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell (attributed)
"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -Helen Keller (1880-1968), American Writer
"You only know what happiness is once you're married. But then it's too late." ~Peter Sellers
"Happiness is wanting what you have." ~ Anonymous
"You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy." ~Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Happiness is a warm gun." ~ The Beatles
"Happiness is a warm puppy." ~ Charles M. Schulz
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." ~ CP Snow
"happiness is when you are looking out at your favourite landmark in the best hotel you have ever been in listening to your favourite song and watching your favourite movie eating chips and having not a care in the world"
You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy. ~ Adi Da Samraj "--Wikipedia


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