Human happiness Quotes · Page 4

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

— Samuel Johnson

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

— Satish Kumar

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Always remember that:hard work makes you stronger,mistakes makes you smarter,success keeps you in shape,sadness and failure makes you human and happiness makes…

— Bakyphitz

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of…

— Ezra Miller

That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach…

— Michael Cunningham

“It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their…

— Sam Harris

The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a…

— Sorin Cerin

“a “lovability economy” and show why it is not only practical but desirable to build businesses around integrity, human happiness, long-term sustainable…

— Brian de Haaff

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes…

— Robert Sheaffer

the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion…

— Frances Wright

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human…

— Sam Harris

Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates…

— John Willys

School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign…

— Robert D. Putnam

“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human…

— Steven Pinker

“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human…

— Pär Lagerkvist

“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire—the fantasy of…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“As Christians we face two tasks in our evangelism: saving the soul and saving the mind, that is to say, not only…

— William Lane Craig

“After the usual politeness, the Citizen Brotteaux resumed the thread of his discourse: 'Those who make a trade out of foretelling the…

— Anatole France

“I've thought of myself a girl on several occasions because I like to polish shoes and find household tasks amusing. There was…

— Robert Walser

“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own…

— Ashim Shanker

“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are…

— Woody Allen

“Some scholars compare human biochemistry to an air-conditioning system that keeps the temperature constant, come heatwave or snowstorm. Events might momentarily change…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Csíkszentmihályi, a very brilliant psychologist, believed that what he called Flow was a state of complete absorption which produced the highest level…

— Tania Kindersley

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

— Dalai Lama

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

— Michel de Montaigne

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about…

— Orson Scott Card

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

— Thomas Jefferson

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of…

— Dalai Lama

“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca”

— Will Jelbert

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

— Elihu Burritt

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness…

— Katha Pollitt

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,…

— Anthony Storr

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and…

— Ray Lyman Wilbur

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns…

— Herbert Hoover

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when…

— Grover Norquist

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at…

— Samuel Johnson

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep…

— Walter Rauschenbusch