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Happiness

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Nash, Ogden

3.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Rubinstein, Arthur

4.
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

5.
IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Laura Moncur

6.
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

7.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
Camus, Albert

8.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.
Greene, Graham

9.
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

10.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell

11.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

12.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Brande, Dorothea

13.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Bennett, Arnold

14.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Heywood, John

15.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Hume, David

16.
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham

17.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
James, William

18.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Fichte, Johann G.

19.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Maxwell, William

20.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert

21.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

22.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Russell, Bertrand

24.
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

25.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Smith, Adam

26.
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.
Prutz

27.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De

28.
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

29.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

30.
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

31.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Camus, Albert

32.
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)

33.
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

34.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Cervantes, Miguel De

35.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Kant, Immanuel

36.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Stein, Ben

37.
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

38.
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart

39.
After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

40.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Maurier, Daphne Du

41.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

42.
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
Upanishads, Veda

43.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

44.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

45.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Richter, Jean Paul

46.
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Nash, Fay B.

47.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Lee, Bruce

48.
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Meredith, Owen

50.
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


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