Attainment Quote by Will Ferguson

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a…

— Karen Armstrong

“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes, yet surrendering…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

— Toni Morrison

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not…

— Robert Walser

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness;…

— Robert Southey

“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires…

— Arthur Peacocke

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of…

— Joshua Chamberlain

Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that feeling.

— Kirk Franklin

“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find…

— Laini Taylor

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we…

— Barbara Johnson

“During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense,…

— Jane McGonigal