Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Greene, Graham

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

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dalai Lama

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

John Berry

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Ann Radcliffe

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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 the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von