Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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

Rohn, Jim

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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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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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 a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

31.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Christopher Morley

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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