Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Camus, Albert

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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?