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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. -- Genghis Khan
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. -- Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. -- Madame de Stael
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. -- William Dean Howells
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. -- Francis Hutcheson
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. -- Walter Annenberg
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. -- Plato
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. -- Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor Hugo
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. -- Horatio Nelson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. -- Joseph Butler
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. -- Herbie Hancock
I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. -- Charles M. Schwab
The greatest happiness is family happiness. -- Joyce Brothers
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. -- Francis Hutcheson
Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. -- Allan Lokos
We find the greatest happiness for every challenge we conquered. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world. -- Patti Page
The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. -- Luther Burbank
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. -- John C. Maxwell
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. -- Robert Henri
The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative. -- Peter Koestenbaum
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others. -- David O. McKay
The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds. -- Brian Tracy
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number -- William Dean Howells
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. -- John Eldredge
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness -- Esther Hicks
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. -- Zig Ziglar
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. -- Linus Pauling
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. -- William Saroyan
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. -- Epicurus
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched". -- Ayn Rand
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling -- Linus Pauling
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. -- Sigmund Freud
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. -- C. S. Lewis
Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover. -- Nalini Singh
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness. -- Russell Simmons
Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference. -- Dave Matthes
Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness. -- Thomas Brooks
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world -- Ashton Kutcher
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain. -- Kedar Joshi
The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children. -- Robert Muller
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. -- Ray Lyman Wilbur
Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive. -- Marvin J. Ashton
My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. -- Lester Levenson
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it. -- J. E. Buckrose
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any. -- Orhan Pamuk
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity. -- Josef Pieper
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor Hugo
The greatest investment in life is the investment of unconditional love, as a profit you will get the greatest gift of life: happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life. -- Meryl Streep
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. -- Herbert Spencer
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. -- Erich Fromm
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Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness. -- Max Muller
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best. -- C. S. Lewis
Love, caring, and the spirit of kindness always bring happiness. Our greatest happiness depends on what we love, how we care, and how we share. -- Debasish Mridha
Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. -- Marianne Williamson
The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. -- Allan Lokos
Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period... -- Daniel Kahneman
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace. -- William Barclay
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. -- Carl Jung
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. -- Smiley Blanton
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it. -- Thomas Jefferson
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. -- John Adams
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort. -- Mooji
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness. -- Elizabeth George
I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience. -- Russell Simmons
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. -- Dean Koontz
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. -- Immanuel Kant
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. -- Dalai Lama
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. -- Cyrus the Great
Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research. -- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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