Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Lao-tzu

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

George Burns

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

Herold, Don

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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.

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

Hesse, Hermann