It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
- Topic: Happiness
- Location: Grand Canyon National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from John Stuart Mill
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
