Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

About Ayn Rand

Portrait of Ayn Rand

Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( ), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.

More quotations from Ayn Rand

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

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More quotations tagged with “happiness”

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

—Ann Radcliffe

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

—Abraham Lincoln

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