Earth Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for…

— Ernest Renan

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

— Alexander Pope

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

— Erich Fromm

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and…

— John Ruskin

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

— James Smithson

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Happiness is a byproduct of helping others. No man ever finds happiness by thinking of himself. True happiness comes when we lose ourselves in…

— Royden G. Derrick

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

— Gautama Buddha

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

— David O. McKay

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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