A Quote by Immanuel Kant

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

Quote Topics

Happiness Hope Love Rules Someone Something To Love

Quote Author

Immanuel Kant
German - Philosopher
April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Anthony de Mello

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

Lou Holtz

My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Mary Kay Ash

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Ruskin

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Dick Van Dyke

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dyer

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

Pema Chodron

I hope that young girls will have the dream and will have experiences. And it might not be in swimming. It might be in something else. But I found a passion, and I love it. It's something I love and something I enjoy. It's something I'm good at. And it's what I have been able to give 100 percent to.

Katie Ledecky

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

Melissa Rosenberg

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Anthony de Mello

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!