Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness. — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic… — John Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“I believe in justice, I want redress for all wrongs done, I want the good life-if such a thing exists-accessible to all.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image