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 really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nicole Kidman

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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 only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Feather, William

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Fielding, Henry