Best Human Happiness Sayings
84 Human Happiness quotes by 63 unique authors
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All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
— Margaret Way
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Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed…
— Robert Sheaffer
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
— Samuel Johnson
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
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A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
— Sam Harris
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
— Bertrand Russell
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
— B.F. Skinner
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As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Books make up no small part of human happiness.
— Frederick The Great
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For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,…
— Anatole France
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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
— John Milton
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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
— David Hume
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The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does…
— Grover Norquist
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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
— Heinrich Mann
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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means…
— Charles Inglis
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I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an…
— Ezra Miller
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All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
— Theodore Dalrymple
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