Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

- Knuth, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

17.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Solon

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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''

32.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Christopher Morley

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.