Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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

Ayn Rand

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Nielsen, A.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Fountain., John

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