Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Orwell, George

12.

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

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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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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Robert Frost

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

Lao-Tzu

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

David Assael

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

33.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

37.

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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Fountain., John

47.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Kin Hubbard

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.