Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jackson, Holbrook

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Chambers, Oswald

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Oprah Winfrey

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Prutz

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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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

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

Bono, Edward De

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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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