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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
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

2.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
Murdoch, Iris

3.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Barthel, Mildred

4.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

5.
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
Binstock, Louis

6.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Hazlitt, William

7.
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

8.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Muller, Max

9.
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

10.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Kant, Immanuel

11.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

12.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings

13.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

14.
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey

15.
Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
Hesse, Hermann

16.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Lee, Bruce

17.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
Lucas, E. V.

18.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Proverb, Scottish

19.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

20.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

21.
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

22.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
Johnson, Samuel

23.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow

24.
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

25.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
Rockefeller, John D.

26.
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

27.
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny The Elder

28.
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.

29.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

30.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle

31.
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

32.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

33.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

34.
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

35.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

36.
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

37.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson

38.
For who is pleased with himself.
Johnson, Samuel

39.
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

40.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

41.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
James, William

42.
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

43.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

44.
Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Mason, John L.

45.
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

46.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Schachtel, Rabbi H.

47.
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Zimbler, Adam

48.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Beckett, Samuel

49.
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Ketchel, Holly

50.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Ziglar, Zig


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