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

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lao-tzu

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

Confucius

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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 secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

John Berry

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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 does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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

35.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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.

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Ayn Rand

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz