Human Happiness Quotes - Page 2

• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Degrees

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.176

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Feelings, Three

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266

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• I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

  Aristotle Onassis

  People, Reputation, Rich

  "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, 1978.

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• Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

  Max Ernst

  Records, Able, Possibility

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Loss, Medicine

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.73, Read Books Ltd

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Fate, Men

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• Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Use, Mars, Bless

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• That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Lying, Reality

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.804, e-artnow

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• The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, Self, Helping

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• 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

  Feelings, Random Things, Matter

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.36, Macmillan

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• All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

  Margaret Way

  Love Is, Humans, Built

  Margaret Way (2005). “His Heiress Wife”, Thorndike Press

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• [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Passion, Race, Sight

  Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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• Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prejudice, Kind, Welfare

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• Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Connections, Done

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.223, Basic Books

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• I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Conviction, Social, Bases

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2016

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• Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

  John Adams

  Government, Support, Honor

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Mother, Nature, Science

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• If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.

  Daniel Webster

  Cheer, Father, Shining

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.24

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