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

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

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Christopher Morley

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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

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Oscar Levant

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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 not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.