Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Camus, Albert

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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

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

Ayn Rand

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Clyde, R.D.

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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.

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

C. P. Snow

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

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

Robert Frost

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

James Oppenheim