Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Orwell, George

14.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

18.

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

19.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

28.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

35.

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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

46.

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

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

49.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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