Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Millman, Dan

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

J.K. Rowling

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bradley, Amanda

31.

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

Fountain., John

32.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John