Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bradley, Amanda

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Epicurus

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Heywood, John

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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

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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

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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

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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... 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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Camus, Albert

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus