Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Farrall, Joseph

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Jonathan Haidt

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

10.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Muller, Max

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Roy M. Goodman

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Robert Frost

18.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

19.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

20.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

28.

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

Kin Hubbard

29.

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

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

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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 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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

40.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Horton, Doug

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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