Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Waitley, Denis

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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 is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Feather, William

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Jerrold, Douglas William