Quotes About Happiness

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve—Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.

Just prove that a thing makes men happy—and you've damned it. That's how far we've come. We've tied happiness to guilt.

It is forbidden, not to be happy. For, as it has been explained to us, men are free and the earth belongs to them; and all things on earth belong to all men; and the will of all men together is good for all; and so all men must be happy. Yet

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been—for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

The road was dark, edged with trees. Looking up, he could see a few leaves against the stars; the leaves were twisted and dry, ready to fall. There were distant lights in the windows of houses scattered through the countryside; but the lights made the road seem lonelier. He never felt loneliness except when he was happy.

Isn't it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure?" he said to her once, quite simply. They were happy and radiantly innocent. They were both incapable of the conception that joy is sin.

Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness." Keating

with the gay exuberance that made him irresistible at times

even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence—to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Acepta el hecho de que lograr tu felicidad es el único objetivo moral de tu vida, y que la felicidad..., no el dolor ni las extravagancias irresponsables, es la prueba de tu integridad moral, ya que es la prueba y el resultado de tu lealtad al logro de tus valores.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." Book-

glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

La felicidad es un estado de alegría no contradictoria, una alegría sin pena ni culpa, una alegría que no choca con ninguno de tus valores y que no te lleva a tu propia destrucción; no es la alegría de escapar de tu mente, sino la de usar su poder total; no es la alegría de disimular la realidad, sino la de alcanzar valores reales; no es la alegría de un borracho, sino la de un productor.

He visto mucho en esta vida -dijo de buen humor-. Y los casados no se miran uno a otro como si estuvieran pensando siempre en el dormitorio. En este mundo o se es virtuoso o se goza. Pero no las dos cosas a un tiempo; No las dos cosas.

Así como no mantengo mi vida mediante el robo o la limosna, sino mediante mi propio esfuerzo, tampoco busco obtener mi felicidad por el daño o el favor de otros, sino por mis propios logros.

it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

This was not the time for his old doubts. He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification. He felt certain that every living being wished him well tonight

And now, sitting here in our tunnel, we wonder about these words. It is forbidden, not to be happy.

I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others, but earn it by my own achievement. Just

I'll tell you…I'll tell you something…unhappiness is the hallmark of virtue. If a man is unhappy, really, truly unhappy, it means that he is a superior sort of person.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. . . . [Man-worshipers are] those dedicated to the exaltation of man's self-esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth.

only gesture of protest open to me. What else could I offer you? The things people sacrifice are so little. I'll give you my marriage to Peter Keating. I'll refuse to permit myself happiness in their world. I'll take suffering. That will be my answer to them, and my gift to you. I shall probably never see you again. I shall try not to. But I will live for you, through every minute and every shameful act I take, I will live for you in my own way, in the only way I can.

Para vivir, el hombre ha de considerar tres cosas como los valores supremos gobernantes de su vida: Razón, Propósito, Estima propia. La Razón como única herramienta de conocimiento, el Propósito como su elección de felicidad que con aquella herramienta ha de poder conseguir; la estima propia como inviolable certidumbre de que su mente es competente para pensar y su persona digna de la felicidad, lo que significa digna de vivir.