Happiness Quote by David O. McKay

“Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body…

— André Breton

“The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent…

— Richard Matheson

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he…

— James Allen

“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once in life.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby…

— Jack Kerouac

“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are…

— Thomas Merton

“The first step in the mental training is to become the master of external things. He who is addicted to worldly pleasures, however learned…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

— Jose Ferrer

“But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom…

— John Steinbeck

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm