Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Waitley, Denis

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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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 is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Goodman, Roy

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

James Oppenheim

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen