Motivational Quotes

Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Jackson, Holbrook

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

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

William Cowper

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

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

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.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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 we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horton, Doug

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Lao-Tzu

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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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

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Democritus

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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