Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

10.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

12.

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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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

15.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

16.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

17.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

18.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

22.

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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

25.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

26.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

28.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

David Assael

34.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesse, Hermann

37.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

46.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord