Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Josh Billings

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

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

Meredith, Owen

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Scottish

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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 understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen