Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

- Ginott, Haim

Best Quotes about Happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Ayn Rand

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Goodman, Roy

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

21.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nicole Kidman

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert