Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Feather, William

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

George Burns

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Democritus

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

Roy M. Goodman

10.

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

Christopher Morley

11.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

12.

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

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

15.

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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

21.

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

Robert Frost

22.

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

Orwell, George

23.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

24.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Waitley, Denis

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

35.

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

Farrall, Joseph

36.

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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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

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

43.

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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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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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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

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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