Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Cowper

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kant, Immanuel

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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

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

Al Batt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Feather, William

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Levenson, Samuel

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Mason, John L.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E