Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ketchel, Holly

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Spanish

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.