Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

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

Oscar Levant

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

Solon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

George Burns

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Buchan, John

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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