Motivational Quotes

Happiness

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

- Doris Lessing

Best Quotes about Happiness

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Alda, Alan

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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?

Caron, Leslie

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

David Assael

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.