Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

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

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Camus, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Billings, Josh

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Jean Houston

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

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham