Individual Happiness Quotes

• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The day of individual happiness has passed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Individuality, Individual

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• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Church Ministry, Mein Kampf

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• I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Fans, Video

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• It is not truth that matters, but victory.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, Victory, Matter

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• It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Fighting, Dictator

  "Mein Kampf: English Edition".

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• Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Winning, Admiration, Individual

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.19

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• In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

  Prentice Mulford

  Spiritual, Grieving, Discovery

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.800, e-artnow

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• Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

  Julian Casablancas

  Happiness, Happy, Desire

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• The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Judging, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson (1990). “Public and private papers”, Vintage Books

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• I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Believe, Men

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• In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Iron, Political

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Selfish, Passion, Rights

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• 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

  Limits, Firsts, Social

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.169, VM eBooks

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• God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Godly, Individual, Concern

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• I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

  Emily Giffin

  Relationship, Thinking, Together

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.365, Macmillan

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• Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Welfare, Castes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4615, Manonmani Publishers

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• I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Thinking, Two

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.365, Macmillan

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• Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself as you seek your way in life, I offer you "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Wherever else you think you may be going, I ask you to "come unto Him" as the imperative first step in getting there, in finding your individual happiness and strength and success.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thinking, Way In Life, Finding Yourself

  "Come unto Me". speeches.byu.edu. March 2, 1997.

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• Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

  George Washington

  Religious, Law, Practice

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.369

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• After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Museums, Purpose

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.462, Faber & Faber

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• The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Order, Practice, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.246, Rowman & Littlefield

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• America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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