The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
- Topic: Happiness
- Location: Bandon, Face Rock, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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More on Happiness
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Gratitude is the way to happiness.
