Brutes Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

— George Hodges (theologian

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

— Tito Colliander

The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

— Joseph Butler

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

— Voltaire

Happiness is pleasure without regret

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law…

— Jack Canfield

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

— John Tillotson

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and…

— Anonymous