Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

J.K. Rowling

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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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

11.

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

Prutz

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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

13.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Cloete, Stuart

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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 is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

John Berry

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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.

38.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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 butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.