Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Robert Frost

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

David Assael

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lao-tzu