Despise Quote by Anton Chekhov

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

— Laozi

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are…

— Samuel Johnson

You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy…

— Terry Pratchett

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we…

— Felix Adler

It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.

— Misha Green

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot…

— Rajneesh

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

I hope I live to be 100 if only just to mess with people by telling them fake reasons why I lived so long.…

— Green Monk

Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some time in…

— Nathaniel Branden

“How many happy, satisfied people there are, after all, I said to myself. What an overwhelming force! Just consider this life--the insolence and idleness…

— Anton Chekhov