Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

- Millman, Dan

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Lao-Tzu

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 Szasz

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Al Batt

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

33.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De