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

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

10.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

14.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

15.

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

16.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

17.

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

18.

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

The laws of Manu

19.

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

Spencer, Herbert

20.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

22.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

23.

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

24.

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

25.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

26.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

Muller, Max

31.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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

33.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

James Oppenheim

35.

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

36.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

37.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

Solon

39.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

41.

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

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

43.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Nash, Ogden

45.

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

46.

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

Jonathan Haidt

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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