Ends Quote by William Barrett

“This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.”

— Rick Riordan

“...it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...”

— Ellen Glasgow

“What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying.…

— Aristotle

“I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the satisfaction of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting…

— Bertrand Russell

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by…

— Alexandre Dumas

“All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.”

— CLAMP

“Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.”

— Beth Pattillo

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

“They longed for someone to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it with a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“the traditional pursuit of happiness isn’t enough to give us the happiness we want.”

— Noah Elkrief