Human Happiness Quotes

• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Riches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  George Washington

  Inspiring, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

  Dalai Lama

  Satisfaction, Humans, Oneself

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.36, Penguin Books India

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

  Theodor Reik

  Self, Secret, Forget

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.194, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Running, Creative, Assumption

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Happiness, Practice, Moral

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.308

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• There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Two, Self

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• 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

  Important, Elements, May

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• 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

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• 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

  Rainy Day, Advice, Enemy

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 7 Dec. 1782)

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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Different, Three

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.746, Delphi Classics

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• He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Light, Giving, Wish

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

  Walter Lippmann

  Happiness, Achievement, Should

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Blessing, Men

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• Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Influence, Silent

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

  Glenn Gould

  Isolation, Indispensable, Humans

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• 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

  Spiritual, Finals, Satisfaction

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.36, Penguin Books India

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• Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Anxiety, Scylla, Bark

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

  Peter Deunov

  Hardship, Conflict, Humans

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sunshine, Clouds, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes”, p.56

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