Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Oscar Levant

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

Clyde, R.D.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Chuck Sigars

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

David Assael

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

24.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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 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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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

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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