Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Szasz, Thomas

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

John Berry

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Millman, Dan

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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