Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Happiness

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Anderson, Greg

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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Christopher Morley

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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