Human Happiness Quotes - Page 2

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Satish Kumar

Art, Simplicity, Crafts

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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

Robert D. Putnam

Suicide, School, Simple

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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Galen

Health, Physicians, Essentials

"Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.

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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

George Washington

Religious, Business, Men

"George Washington’s Farewell Address". "The Life of George Washington. Special Edition for Schools", ed. Robert Faulkner and Paul Carrese, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, oll.libertyfund.org. 2000.

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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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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

Happiness, Lying, America

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Aristotle

Writing, Character, Giving

"On the Art of Poetry".

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Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.

Robert J. Havighurst

Family, Life Is, Source

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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

Happiness, Science, Historical

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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

Happiness, Pain, Giving

Jean Giraudoux (1962). “Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY”

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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

Birthday, Real, Men

Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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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

Marriage, Struggle, Inspiration

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

Robert J. Havighurst

Life, Money, Two

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No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

Elihu Burritt

World, Humans, Human Beings

Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.90

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It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Light, Perception, Enemy

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4445, Library of Alexandria

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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

Love, Freedom, Inspire

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The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Dalai Lama

Happiness, Lying, Keys

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

John Milton

Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750

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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Liberty, Essentials, Dignity

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Heart, Mind, Wish

Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Bertrand Russell

Two, Important, Machines

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press

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A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

Sam Harris

Spiritual, Religious, Strong

Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Obstacles, Dogmatism, Humans

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Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

Walter Rauschenbusch

Happiness, Law, Mars

"Christianity and the Social Crisis".

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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

Islands, Littles, Lessons

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