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

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mason, John L.

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Feather, William

12.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Maxwell, William

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

37.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

43.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De