Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Dyer, Wayne

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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

Lao-Tzu

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

William Cowper

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Clyde, R.D.

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Epicurus

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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 not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Feather, William

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus