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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goodman, Roy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

James Oppenheim

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Byron, Lord

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Chuck Sigars

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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

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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