Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

William Cowper

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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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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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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Robert Frost

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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

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

Epictetus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Bono, Edward De

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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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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.