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

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Meltzer, Bernard

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Waitley, Denis

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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

James Oppenheim

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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

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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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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John