Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

- Buckrose, J.E

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

11.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

15.

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

16.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

17.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

18.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

Maxwell, William

20.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

21.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

22.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Oscar Levant

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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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

28.

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

29.

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

Cloete, Stuart

30.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

32.

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

Ketchel, Holly

33.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

35.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

36.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

39.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

40.

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

41.

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

Confucius

43.

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

44.

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

45.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

46.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.