Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Waitley, Denis

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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