Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

Lao-tzu

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Nicole Kidman

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Clyde, R.D.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Horace

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

Oscar Levant

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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 great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben