Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jonathan Haidt

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Billings, Josh

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

Ayn Rand

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

J.K. Rowling

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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