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

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

James Oppenheim

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

J.K. Rowling

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.