Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Spanish

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Johnson, Samuel

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Oscar Levant

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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