Happiness Quotes

"Individual happiness is inseparable from collective well-being."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"The greatest happiness principle is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends."

"Whatever helps toward a happy life is progress."

"The pursuit of happiness is a worthy human endeavor."

"Happiness is found not in possession but in the joy of being."

"There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

"The fact that the sun shines gives me great pleasure."

"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is profoundly vicious."

"The present generation wants to be happy, not to become great."

"It is the duty of a human being to increase the sum total of human happiness."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"The multiplication of happiness is the object, and ought to be the only object, of all government."

"As to the happiness of mankind, principle is everything."

"Few, I trust, are disposed to reject the proposition that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of all morality and legislation."

"All mischief is pain; it is therefore the natural opponent of happiness."

"The pleasure of one is the pleasure of two when shared."

"The greatest good for the greatest number requires the restraint of the appetites of individuals."

"In the pursuit of happiness, we must be guided by reason, not by passion."

"The right to pursue one's own happiness is fundamental to human nature"

"Happiness is found not in isolated pleasure but in meaningful participation in social improvement."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"There is a greater amount of individual happiness in modern times than in former ages."

"Comfort and security alone make no man truly happy."

"To be happy, one must first learn to accept what one cannot change."

"The pursuit of happiness is often the obstacle to its attainment."

"The happy man is he who knows how to bring his ideas into correspondence with reality."