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“One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world.”
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013).
“The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time waits for no one. There is only one time for happiness and the time is NOW!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life by choice is one that is filled with love, happiness, and an appreciation of each day.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”
Carson Cistulli (born 1979) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)
“Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.”
Ralph Steadman (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Certain forms of sex which do not lead to children are at present punished by the criminal law: this is purely superstitious, since the matter is one which affects no one except the parties directly concerned... The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational... Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7
“There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked "Does philosophy contribute to happiness?" (SHM 76), as quoted in The quotable Bertrand Russell (1993), p. 149
“Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sheikh El-Messiri (28 August 1798); published in Correspondance Napoleon edited by Henri Plon (1861), Vol.4, No. 3148, p. 420
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Candida, Act I (1898)
“Happiness and Beauty are by-products.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The waterbed trend was similar to the fulfillment movement, in the sense that you paid for something that was supposed to bring you happiness, but you wound up with something less fulfilling, in this case motion sickness and water damage.”
Dave Barry (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I look upon the Whigs as an anti-national party... Believing that the policy of the party was such as must destroy the honour of the kingdom abroad and the happiness of the people at home, I considered it my duty to oppose the Whigs, to ensure their discomfiture, and, if possible, their destruction.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1804 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Taunton (28 April 1835), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 286
“The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech of 1877-06-24
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:
“One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness. In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are — though they might not agree — robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (1967); also quoted in Childhood Revisited (1974) by Joel I. Milgram and Dorothy June Sciarra, p. 90
“My closest friend and brother – this world is lucky to have a great personality as Kim Il Sung. This causes my boundless happiness. The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) first seen 1733 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters on England, letter 6, "On the Presbyterians", trans. Leonard Tancock (Penguin Books, 1980) p. 41, published first in English in 1733
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Hitler (1974) by Joachim C. Fest, p. 533
“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XXXVIII, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 259
“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The savage recognizes life only in himself and his personal desires. His interest in life is concentrated on himself alone. The highest happiness for him is the fullest satisfaction of his desires. The motive power of his life is personal enjoyment. His religion consists in propitiating his deity and in worshiping his gods, whom he imagines as persons living only for their personal aims.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source