Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Epicurus

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

John Berry

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Christopher Morley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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