Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Happiness

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Bob Newhart

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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Democritus

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Benjamin Franklin

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.