Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Jean Houston

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

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Proust, Marcel

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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