Motivational Quotes

Happiness

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nash, Ogden

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

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Stein, Ben

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Yeats, William Butler

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Prutz

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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.

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green