Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Josh Billings

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Prevert, Jacques

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

David Assael