Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Camus, Albert

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)