Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

C. P. Snow

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, 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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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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 end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

George Burns

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Mason, John L.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bradley, Amanda

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.