Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Christopher Morley

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

Robert Frost

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Lao-tzu

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Camus, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nash, Ogden

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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