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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Murdoch, Iris

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

Dalai Lama

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Upanishads, Veda

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus