Human Happiness Quotes

84 quotes by 64 authors

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. — Zygmunt Bauman
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and… — Louis D. Brandeis
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… — Thomas Carlyle
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. — Samuel Johnson
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to… — George Washington
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple… — Robert D. Putnam
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness… — Aristotle
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… — George Washington
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand… — Herbert Hoover
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness — Dalai Lama
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. — Samuel Adams
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. — Josh Billings
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. — Dalai Lama
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human… — Plato
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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