Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Bradley, Amanda

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Smith, Adam

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Waitley, Denis

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Josh Billings

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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Stein, Ben

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

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

John Berry

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.