Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Herold, Don

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Stein, Ben

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lucian

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Orwell, George

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.