Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

- Gilfillan, Robert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Jonathan Haidt

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Fielding, Henry

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

David Assael

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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 consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert