Quotes about Human Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Votes: 2

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. Votes: 2

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. Votes: 2

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Votes: 2

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Votes: 2

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Votes: 2

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. Votes: 2

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Votes: 2

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. Votes: 2

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Votes: 2

I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. Votes: 2

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Votes: 2

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. Votes: 2

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. Votes: 2

All human happiness is sensuous happiness. Votes: 0

Money is human happiness in the abstract. Votes: 0

The basic condition of human life is happiness. Votes: 0

All achievement should be measured in human happiness. Votes: 0

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. Votes: 0

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness. Votes: 0

Books make up no small part of human happiness. Votes: 0

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness. Votes: 0

Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible. Votes: 0

All human happiness and misery take the form of action. Votes: 0

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. Votes: 0

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. Votes: 0

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. Votes: 0

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. Votes: 0

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. Votes: 0

We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle. Votes: 0

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare. Votes: 0

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. Votes: 0

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. Votes: 0

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? Votes: 0

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find. Votes: 0

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. Votes: 0

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness Votes: 0

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. Votes: 0

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. Votes: 0

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. Votes: 0

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. Votes: 0

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government. Votes: 0

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. Votes: 0

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? Votes: 0

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick~? Votes: 0

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. Votes: 0

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Votes: 0

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. Votes: 0

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness. Votes: 0

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. Votes: 0

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. Votes: 0

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. Votes: 0

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering Votes: 0

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. Votes: 0

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Votes: 0

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Votes: 0

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal. Votes: 0

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. Votes: 0

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. Votes: 0

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. Votes: 0

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. Votes: 0

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star Votes: 0

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. Votes: 0

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness Votes: 0

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. Votes: 0

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. Votes: 0

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being. Votes: 0

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. Votes: 0

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. Votes: 0

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. Votes: 0

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence. Votes: 0

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. Votes: 0

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. Votes: 0

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom. Votes: 0

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. Votes: 0

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Votes: 0

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness. Votes: 0

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. Votes: 0

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Votes: 0

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. Votes: 0

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. Votes: 0

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. Votes: 0

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. Votes: 0

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Votes: 0

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. Votes: 0

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness Votes: 0

.... Blesstheir believing happiness will make them happy;that the ocean is magical, a kingdomwhere we go to be human, and grateful. Votes: 0

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Votes: 0

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough. Votes: 0

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. Votes: 0

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. Votes: 0

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. Votes: 0

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. Votes: 0

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness. Votes: 0

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness Votes: 0

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. Votes: 0

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction. Votes: 0

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being. Votes: 0

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor. Votes: 0

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. Votes: 0

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom. Votes: 0

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter. Votes: 0

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. Votes: 0

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. Votes: 0

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. Votes: 0

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it. Votes: 0

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. Votes: 0

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. Votes: 0

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. Votes: 0

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]. Votes: 0

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. Votes: 0

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need. Votes: 0

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety. Votes: 0

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness. Votes: 0

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. Votes: 0

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness. Votes: 0

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. Votes: 0

Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness. Votes: 0

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer. Votes: 0

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. Votes: 0

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. Votes: 0

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious. Votes: 0

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Votes: 0

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. Votes: 0

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth Votes: 0

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.' Votes: 0

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit. Votes: 0

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. Votes: 0

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others. Votes: 0

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. Votes: 0

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 Votes: 0

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. Votes: 0

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt. Votes: 0

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period. Votes: 0

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness. Votes: 0

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd. Votes: 0

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations. Votes: 0

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. Votes: 0

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. Votes: 0

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! Votes: 0

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness. Votes: 0

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness. Votes: 0

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths. Votes: 0

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete. Votes: 0

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action. Votes: 0

What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness. Votes: 0

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness. Votes: 0

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people. Votes: 0

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness. Votes: 0

The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations. Votes: 0

Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being. Votes: 0

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right. Votes: 0