Atlas Shrugged Happiness Quotes

#1. Yes, you can get addicted to exercise.

Nick Nolte

#2. I haven't decided when I'll get married,

Ranbir Kapoor

#3. That if our legacy is not entitlement, it must be hope. Because

Jodi Picoult

#4. Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

R.D. Ronald

#5. No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Ayn Rand

#6. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

Ayn Rand

#7. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Ayn Rand

#8. There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value.
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.

Ayn Rand

#9. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

#10. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.

Ayn Rand

#11. The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Ayn Rand

#12. She had always been ... the motive power of her own happiness.

Ayn Rand

#13. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

Ayn Rand

#14. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#15. The world is a palace without bedsheets

Suchet Chaturvedi

#16. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Ayn Rand

#17. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

Ayn Rand

#18. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand

#19. They called her a disgrace to the nurturing traditions of womankind. They threatened to paint a mustache on her and shoot off her nipples.

Tom Robbins

#20. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

Ayn Rand

#21. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Ayn Rand

#22. Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

Russell Simmons

#23. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

Ayn Rand

#24. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#25. I'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

Ben Casnocha

#26. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand