Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Anderson, Greg

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Christopher Morley

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

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

David Assael

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

William Cowper

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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 is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph