Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

Jung, Carl

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.

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Stein, Ben

10.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

11.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

12.

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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

14.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Horton, Doug

17.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Boone, Daniel

19.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

20.

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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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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

28.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dalai Lama

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

32.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

33.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

38.

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

39.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

40.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

41.

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

Solon

42.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.