Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Waitley, Denis

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

25.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Rockefeller, John D.

35.

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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

William Cowper

40.

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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Meredith, Owen

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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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don