Human happiness Quotes

“Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.”

“Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”

“People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.”

“Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.”

“All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.”

“God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness - God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.”

“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.”

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

“Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.”