Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Nielsen, A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth