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  • Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

    George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162
  • 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 (1945). “The Middle Span”
  • Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

    Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes”, p.56
  • Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

  • The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

    Rich   Glory   Articles  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Russian Literature”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Life   Money   Two  
  • In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

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

    Happiness   Pain   Giving  
    Jean Giraudoux (1962). “Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY”
  • Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

    Mean   Views   Soul  
    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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 (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.176
  • Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

    "On the Art of Poetry".
  • 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.

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

    Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.
  • Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

    Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press
  • The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

    Happiness   Lying   Keys  
  • 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.

    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 7 Dec. 1782)
  • Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

    Truth   Promise   Band  
  • A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

    Love   Life   Family  
  • All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 36, 1895.
  • 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.

  • Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.

  • There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

    Happiness   Men   Three  
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”
  • Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

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

    David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266
  • All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

    Margaret Way (2005). “His Heiress Wife”, Thorndike Press
  • The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

    Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.90
  • Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  • Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

    Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.120
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