Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Hoffer, Eric

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Herold, Don

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Christopher Morley

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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 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 cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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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.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

David Assael

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

Bono, Edward De

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Epicurus

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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