Abiding Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

— Anonymous

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others…

— Ayn Rand

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness…

— Lao Tzu

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not…

— Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune,…

— Aristotle

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's person dedication to a cause greater…

— Pacifiersucker

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer