Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Epictetus

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Lao-tzu

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Horton, Doug

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Camus, Albert

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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