Quotes of: Human-happiness Keyword

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin

Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit

Aidan Donnelly

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As human beings we want to be as comfortable as possible, that's human nature and when you do that you live a really really boring life.

Ana Kasparian

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

Tiger Woods

Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.

Life

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhap...

Clockwork Princess

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a...

Atlas Shrugged

The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Where...

The Lay of the Land

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George an...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing...

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Nurse: I'd thought you'd be happy for Miz. Threadgood. Evelyn Couch: [Crying and very upset] Happy? Cuz she's dead? Nurse: No that she gets to go home. She just left in a yellow cab. Evelyn Couch: [Looking VERY confused] I don't understand... Nurse: ...

Fried Green Tomatoes

Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.

Chinese

There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

Korean

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.

Maltese

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is pron...

The Conquest of Happiness

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical ...

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story Of Survival During The War In The Far East

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him (Confessions IV, 10). Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he says, of giving one’s heart to any...

The Four Loves