Collective wisdom Quote by George Washington

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper…

— Thomas Paine

“She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about her. The…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Every person has a right to be unhappy, to suffer in peace without someone else telling her that she is acting like a spoiled…

— Suzanne Selfors

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

— Ronald Reagan

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.…

— Lionel Shriver

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

— Vernon Howard

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

— George Washington

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among…

— Thomas Paine

“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its…

— Eric Weiner

“The pursuit of happiness undeniably includes the pursuit of material well-being: minimally, being able to secure basic necessities. It can be overwhelming to consider…

— Matthew Desmond