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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Aristotle

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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 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

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nash, Ogden

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Stein, Ben

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Solon

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

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

Nicole Kidman

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William