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

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

Lucian

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Christopher Morley

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Byron, Lord

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur