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Happiness

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
- Mason, John L.
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
Greene, Graham

2.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Sondreal, Palmer

4.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Hubbard, Elbert

5.
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
Sweetland, Ben

6.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

7.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

8.
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

9.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
Stossel, John

10.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

11.
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

12.
We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

13.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

14.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Prevert, Jacques

15.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

16.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Anderson, Greg

17.
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Ketchel, Holly

18.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Bono, Edward De

19.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Aurelius, Marcus

20.
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
Horton, Doug

21.
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

22.
Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

23.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

25.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Spencer, Herbert

27.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

28.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Kant, Immanuel

29.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Waitley, Denis

30.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Rooney, Andy

31.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.
Greene, Graham

33.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Kundera, Milan

34.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Millman, Dan

35.
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Landor, Walter Savage

36.
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
Buchan, John

37.
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

38.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Mill, John Stuart

39.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

40.
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Zimbler, Adam

41.
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu

43.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

44.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

45.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus

46.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

47.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Proverb, Hasidic

48.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Franklin, Benjamin

49.
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

50.
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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