“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”— John Ruskin, Time and Tide (1867)Share
“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”— William Ellery ChanningShare
“The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.”— Robert BurnsShare
“But love for an object eternal and infinite feeds the mind with joy alone, and a joy which is free from all sorrow.”— Baruch SpinozaShare
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”— Franklin D. RooseveltShare
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”— Thomas SzaszShare
“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”— Albert EinsteinShare
