Top 100 Human Happiness Quotes
#1. I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it." "After
L.M. Montgomery
#2. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
Aristotle.
#3. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.
The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#4. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke
Robert Jackson Bennett
#5. 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.
Chico Xavier
#6. It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.
Anthony Storr
#7. 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.
Max Ernst
#8. 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.
Aristotle.
#9. 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.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.
Herodotus
#11. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik
#12. 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.
Louis D. Brandeis
#13. 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.
Charles Inglis
#14. If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
Daniel Webster
#15. If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
B.F. Skinner
#16. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#17. 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.
Walter Rauschenbusch
#18. Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin
#19. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.
Graeme Simsion
#20. as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.
Charles Dickens
#21. We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
Charles A. Murray
#22. All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle.
#23. We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.
Phil Harvey
#24. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
Elihu Burritt
#25. 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.
Clarence Francis
#26. Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#27. But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.
Pete McCarthy
#28. No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.
Gina Wohlsdorf
#29. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
#31. With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.
Epicurus
#32. I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
Nelson Mandela
#33. 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.
Jean Giraudoux
#34. But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.
Jonathan Swift
#35. 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.
Thomas Carlyle
#37. It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of "better" we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.
Sam Harris
#38. Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.
Woody Allen
#39. Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.
John Adams
#41. Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
Satish Kumar
#42. For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
Katha Pollitt
#43. Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence,
Jon Meacham
#44. 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.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#45. The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
Heinrich Mann
#46. Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Josh Billings
#47. Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould
#48. 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.
Guy De Maupassant
#49. I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Herodotus
#50. 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.
Dalai Lama
#51. Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body;
Aristotle.
#52. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#53. It's submission," Rediger murmured. "The shocking and simple idea, which had never been so forcefully expressed, that the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.
Michel Houellebecq
#54. Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
Peter Deunov
#55. 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.
Jonathan Haidt
#56. 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.
Joseph Fort Newton
#57. A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#58. All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H.P. Lovecraft
#59. Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
Robert A. Burton
#60. My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.
Anton Chekhov
#61. Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.
Dalai Lama
#63. 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.
Ezra Miller
#64. In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Michel De Montaigne
#65. 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.
P.G. Wodehouse
#66. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#67. I now believe that people are bustards with no ethics. It would be better for them to admit it and build their communal life on that admission. The new ethical issue becomes how to maintain public welfare and human happiness in a society of bustards and scum
Naguib Mahfouz
#68. Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke.
Sophie Kinsella
#69. 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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
#71. All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
J.G. Holland
#72. A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness
Dalai Lama
#73. All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
Theodore Dalrymple
#74. The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
Marcus Garvey
#75. There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
Lin Yutang
#76. All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
Margaret Way
#77. There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
#78. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
#79. There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.
Walter Lippmann
#80. Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.
Ed Webster
#81. Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness.
Charles Eisenstein
#82. 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.
Aristotle Onassis
#83. Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.
Timothy S. Lane
#85. The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
Lillian Wald
#86. Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
Abdu'l- Baha
#87. 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.
Henry B. Eyring
#88. The end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end.
Eckhart Tolle
#89. 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.
Jeremy Collier
#90. 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. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
Ezra Miller
#91. 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.
Dalai Lama
#92. 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.
Plato
#94. 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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#95. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#96. 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.
George Washington
#97. In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means "well-daemoned" - that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.
Samuel Johnson
#100. Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
Bertrand Russell
