Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

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

Bono, Edward De

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Christopher Morley

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

John Berry

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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 is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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 having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stossel, John

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William