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

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

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

Chuck Sigars

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

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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 like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von