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

1.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

2.

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

Nicole Kidman

3.

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

Proverb, Scottish

4.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

5.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

6.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

7.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

9.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

12.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

13.

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

14.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

15.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

16.

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

17.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

18.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

19.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

20.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

21.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Storm Jameson

23.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

25.

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

Freud, Sigmund

26.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

Feather, William

28.

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

29.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

30.

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

31.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

32.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

33.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

34.

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

George Burns

35.

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

36.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

37.

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

38.

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

39.

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

Cloete, Stuart

40.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

41.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

42.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

44.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

45.

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

Chuck Sigars

46.

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

Nash, Ogden

47.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.