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 is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Smith, Adam

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bob Newhart

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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

John Berry

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Christopher Morley

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Herold, Don

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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