Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Happiness

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Rooney, Andy

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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 really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Feather, William

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu