Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dyer, Wayne

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Horton, Doug

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lao-tzu

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Chuck Sigars

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon