Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

- Lucas, E. V.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Confucius

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

10.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

11.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Epicurus

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

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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

24.

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

George Burns

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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 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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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 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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel