Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Nielsen, A.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Herold, Don

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

C. P. Snow

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness