Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Muller, Max

Best Quotes about Happiness

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Oscar Levant

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Horton, Doug

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold