Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

13.

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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Rohn, Jim

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Lao-tzu

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.