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Happiness Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Rand says happiness comes from living according to one's own values and virtues. She describes it as a personal, selfish joy that feels like standing naked before a witness. She also notes that our mind decides what emotions we feel, so happiness is a mental state.

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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

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Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

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No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

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Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

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It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.”

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Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the…

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Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

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I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand…

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“Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and…

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“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as…

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“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish…

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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...

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“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they…

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Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my…

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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the…

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“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not…

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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires…

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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for…

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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your…

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Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies…

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the…

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“If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness…

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“He thought of how convincingly he could describe this scene to friends and make them envy the fullness of his contentment. Why…

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They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they…

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“Paradoxically, it is the so-called pleasure-chasers—the men who seemingly live for nothing but the sensation of the moment, who are concerned only…

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“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to…

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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…

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“Here’s another way. This is most important. Don't allow men to be happy. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no…

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“I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some…

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“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or…

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“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the…

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“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has…

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“I am. I think. I will. My hands. . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . This earth…

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.