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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 secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.
Kindleberger, J.

2.
Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Bierce, Ambrose

3.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

4.
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

5.
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
Binstock, Louis

6.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
Rockefeller, John D.

7.
Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Diderot, Denis

8.
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

9.
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

10.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Stein, Ben

11.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Fichte, Johann G.

12.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Wilde, Oscar

13.
Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.
Watson, Lilian Eichler

14.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
Bennett, William John

15.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Russell, Bertrand

16.
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
Buckrose, J.E

20.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Bergson, Henri L.

21.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Bono, Edward De

22.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

23.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

24.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

25.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Maxwell, William

26.
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

27.
Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Mason, John L.

28.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings

29.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

30.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

31.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Kingsley, Charles

32.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

33.
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

34.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.
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

36.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Proust, Marcel

37.
Joy comes from using your potential.
Schultz, Will

38.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

40.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

41.
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

42.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
Harrigan, John

43.
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Thoreau, Henry David

44.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Alcott, Louisa May

45.
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

46.
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
Fichte, Johann G.

47.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

48.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

49.
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

50.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Szasz, Thomas


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