Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Abraham Lincoln

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Al Batt

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Christopher Morley

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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