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Happiness

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
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

2.
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

3.
Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Sokoloff, Boris

4.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Downs, Hugh

5.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

6.
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

7.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Brande, Dorothea

8.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Saroyan, William

9.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Anderson, Greg

10.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

11.
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Walpole, Sir Hugh

12.
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
Upanishads, Veda

13.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Traherne, Thomas

14.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
Garrison, Theodosia

19.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan

20.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

21.
We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

22.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

23.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

24.
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

25.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
Wolfe, W, Beran

26.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

27.
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
Nielsen, A.

28.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

29.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Jerrold, Douglas William

30.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

31.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Franklin, Benjamin

32.
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
Bonnell, John S.

34.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Kant, Immanuel

35.
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

36.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Rubin, Theodore I.

37.
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

38.
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

39.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Barrie, Sir James M.

40.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Waitley, Denis

41.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Yeats, William Butler

42.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Proverb, Scottish

43.
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

44.
IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Laura Moncur

45.
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.

46.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

47.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow

48.
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

49.
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Ketchel, Holly

50.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Maurier, Daphne Du


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