Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maxwell, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bentham, Jeremy

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rooney, Andy

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Christopher Morley

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Horton, Doug

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Fountain., John

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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

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

George Burns

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.