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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. -- Heinrich Mann
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. -- Grover Norquist
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
All human happiness is sensuous happiness. -- Lin Yutang
Money is human happiness in the abstract. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The basic condition of human life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
All achievement should be measured in human happiness. -- Walter Lippmann
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -- George Washington
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness. -- Glenn Gould
Books make up no small part of human happiness. -- Frederick the Great
Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness. -- Rory Sutherland
Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible. -- Sunday Adelaja
All human happiness and misery take the form of action. -- Aristotle
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. -- Galen
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. -- John Milton
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle. -- Phil Harvey
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. -- Alexander Smith
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. -- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. -- Shirley Hazzard
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness -- David Hume
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. -- Herodotus
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. -- Theodor Reik
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. -- David Hume
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government. -- Charles A. Murray
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. -- Josh Billings
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? -- Markus Zusak
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick~? -- Markus Zusak
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. -- Margaret Oliphant
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. -- Graham Greene
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness. -- Dacher Keltner
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. -- Isaiah Berlin
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. -- Samuel Johnson
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering -- Albert Camus
The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. -- Bertrand Russell
All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal. -- Dalai Lama
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. -- Benjamin Franklin
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. -- Elihu Burritt
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. -- Bertrand Russell
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. -- Bertrand Russell
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star -- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. -- Margaret Way
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness -- Dalai Lama
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. -- Adrien Brody
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. -- Sharon Salzberg
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being. -- Elie Wiesel
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. -- Paulo Coelho
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. -- Marcus Garvey
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. -- Toni Morrison
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence. -- Thomas Jefferson
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. -- Kenichi Fukui
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. -- Murray Rothbard
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness. -- Nelson Mandela
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. -- Rudolf Steiner
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. -- David O. McKay
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. -- Francis Henry Taylor
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. -- Michel de Montaigne
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. -- Seneca the Younger
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. -- Simon Sinek
The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
.... Blesstheir believing happiness will make them happy;that the ocean is magical, a kingdomwhere we go to be human, and grateful. -- Philip Schultz
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. -- Paulo Coelho
The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. -- Satish Kumar
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. -- Alexander Alekhine
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness. -- Peter Deunov
Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction. -- Dalai Lama
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
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
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. -- Samuel Adams
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
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
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
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. -- George Washington
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. -- David O. McKay
... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it. -- Margaret Deland
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. -- Martin Seligman
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. -- Kim Cattrall
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. -- Maxwell Maltz
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]. -- Plato
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. -- Charlie Chaplin
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety. -- Shawn Achor
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness. -- Voltaire
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. -- Siri Hustvedt
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
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

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