Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

James Oppenheim

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Bono, Edward De

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

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

J.K. Rowling

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Waitley, Denis

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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