Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Roy M. Goodman

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Rooney, Andy

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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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 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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Bono, Edward De

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.