Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Camus, Albert

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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 not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kin Hubbard

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

John Berry

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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)