“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Csíkszentmihályi, a very brilliant psychologist, believed that what he called Flow was a state of complete absorption which produced the highest level… — Tania Kindersley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. — Heinrich Mann Copy Share Image
“The watchword of the future will be HUMAN HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT, and when this state of mind shall have been attained, the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and… — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
