Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Christopher Morley

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Oscar Levant

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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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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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 is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

George Burns

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart