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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

2.
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Sondreal, Palmer

3.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.
Hume, David

4.
Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.
Muriel, James

5.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

6.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Chambers, Oswald

7.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Bono, Edward De

8.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Marden, Orison Swett

9.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Peale, Norman Vincent

10.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing

11.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

12.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Heywood, John

13.
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
Boyd, William

14.
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu

16.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Billings, Josh

17.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

18.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

19.
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

20.
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
Fountain., John

21.
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

22.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

23.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley

24.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Jonathan Haidt

26.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Richter, Jean Paul

27.
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Thoreau, Henry David

28.
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
Nielsen, A.

29.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

30.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Johnson, Samuel

31.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Alcott, Louisa May

33.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

34.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Fichte, Johann G.

35.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Young, Margaret

36.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

37.
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.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

39.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

40.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
Heinlein, Robert

41.
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.

42.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

43.
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
Buchan, John

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Aurelius, Marcus

48.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Johnson, Samuel

49.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

50.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman


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