Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Thomas Szasz

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lao-tzu

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

John Berry

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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

Epicurus

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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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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 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

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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 lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De