Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

- Knuth, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Oscar Levant

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.