Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ayn Rand

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh