Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched". — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you want me to remind you that you once swore to make my happiness aim of your life? And that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
