Destroy Happiness Quotes

#1. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

George H. Smith

#2. Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#3. Destroy all the barrier inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be nonjudgmental but be loving.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The happiness she found in Rhys' arms was dimmed by the fact that she was going to lose him.
He shattered the walls caging her in, giving her a glimpse of what her life could have been.
And she was going to destroy it all.

Donna Grant

#6. If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

William C. Brown

#7. The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you ... Eliminate that word from your life ... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

Jack White

#8. She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.

Vera Brittain

#9. Do not collect passion into the equation. It is a dangerous foe, Theodora, like keeping a lion in the garden. It might seem safe enough, but it might well destroy you. No, do not yearn for passion. Ask instead for contentment, happiness. Those are to be wished for.

Deanna Raybourn

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

Ayn Rand

#11. 12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;
to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness.

Emily Bronte

#15. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.

J.C. Reed

#16. [The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute ...

Edward Gibbon

#17. But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#18. Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

Shantideva

#19. By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#20. I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.

Debasish Mridha

#21. We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.

Henry Kuttner

#22. Distractions destroy our dreams.

Debasish Mridha

#23. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

Salmon P. Chase

#24. The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

Dalai Lama

#25. The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

Larry Winget

#26. men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy - so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.

Ayn Rand

#27. That alien, unreachable, unattainable happiness, I could not destroy; I had built half of it.

Joan Reginaldo

#28. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. 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

#30. The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

#31. Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil.

Shannon Hale

#32. You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#33. You cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

Tracie Peterson

#34. If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. You can destroy an enemy in confrontation but to win a friend you have to love.

Debasish Mridha

#36. You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

James M. Barrie

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

Milton R. Hunter

#38. She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

Graham Greene

#39. What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

Robert E.Lee

#40. Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

C.S. Lewis