#happiness

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#barrels #could #covered #emerged #follow

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#common #desire #individual

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #government #happiness #men #office

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

we're all golden sunflowers inside. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#happiness #love #love

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#else #everything #expense #found #i

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#art #dalai #dalai lama #down-to-earth #friday

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#finding #giving #happiness #into #lives