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Happiness Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
- The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
- If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for…
- Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness…
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
- Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
- What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our…
- One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are…
- Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable…
- Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:…
- Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach