Motivational Quotes

Happiness

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Christopher Morley

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Confucius

11.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Muller, Max

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William