Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oscar Levant

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Jean Houston

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

John Berry

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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

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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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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

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

Dalai Lama

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald