Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. ”

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ”

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. ”

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another. ”

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it. ”

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ”

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. ”

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ”

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. ”

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