Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Muller, Max

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Diderot, Denis

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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 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

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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 like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Abraham Lincoln

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose