Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

- Farrall, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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.

2.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

3.

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

Dyer, Wayne

4.

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

5.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

6.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

8.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

9.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Kin Hubbard

12.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

13.

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

John Berry

14.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Nicole Kidman

16.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

17.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

18.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

19.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

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

21.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

22.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

23.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

24.

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

25.

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

Stein, Ben

26.

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

Nielsen, A.

27.

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

28.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

29.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

30.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

31.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

33.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

34.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

35.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

36.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

37.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

38.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

39.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

40.

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

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

43.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

44.

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

45.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

46.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

47.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

49.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

50.

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