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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Pt. IV, Ch. 30: General Considerations
- Freedom
- Morality
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal1783–1842De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 17, footnote
- Beauty
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.
Stendhal1783–1842Journal entry (10 December 1801)
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Responsibility
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Old Mortality (1884).
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus55–120
Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is. And joy is everywhere.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “The Realisation of the Infinite”
- Freedom
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Love
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter IIIn context
- Laughter
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (11 March 1856)
- Money
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Economy (2 of 3)In context
- Money
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)