Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

- Heywood, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Camus, Albert

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

John Berry

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

William Cowper

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herold, Don

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Bradley, Amanda

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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