Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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 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

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Maxwell, William

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Prutz

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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.

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

Solon

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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Bob Newhart

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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

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic