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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Scottish

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Brande, Dorothea

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Ayn Rand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

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

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Muller, Max

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

Fichte, Johann G.