Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

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

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Christopher Morley

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Oscar Levant

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Aristotle

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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.

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Lucian