Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Maxwell, William

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Christopher Morley

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.