Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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 not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Proust, Marcel

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Oscar Levant

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

John Berry

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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.

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

The laws of Manu

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Rooney, Andy

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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