Modern Happiness Quotes

#1. In modern times, making family meals happen is hard, but family meals are a better predictor of a child's overall healthy eating, happiness, and success than the socioeconomic status of the parents or extra-curricular activities.8,9

Katja Rowell

#2. Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

Chris Abani

#3. The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn't really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

Evan Sutter

#4. Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.

Jim DeMint

#5. Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.

Nic Marks

#8. Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.

Robert A. Johnson

#9. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Progress has not brought about universal happiness ...

Adam Leith Gollner

#11. I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness.

Charles E. Coughlin

#12. Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

Homer

#13. To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Andrew Weil

#15. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

Regina Brett

#16. A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Michael Gilbert

#18. No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Henry C. Link

#19. In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#20. In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#21. I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

Ricky Martin

#22. The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves.

Fulton J. Sheen

#23. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Neel Burton

#24. Money is an important tool for modern life. Money will not make you happy, but you can use money wisely to enhance your happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

Anthony Daniels

#26. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Erich Fromm

#27. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Johnny Cash

#28. It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant

John M. Poothullil

#29. Do we mean love, when we say love?

Samuel Beckett

#30. When we spend money on others, for example, we feel more content than when we spend money on ourselves. This is a kind of well-being rooted in meaning, connection, and equanimity - called eudaimonia by the ancient Greeks and in modern times perhaps called "inner" or "true" happiness.

Daniel J. Siegel

#31. I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

Jonathan Haidt

#32. Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Sara Sheridan

#33. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

John Adams

#34. The majority of people in modern society feel separated - from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#35. -make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being ...

Aldous Huxley

#36. When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

Eric Holder

#37. Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

George Will