Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Rooney, Andy

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Rohn, Jim

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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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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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

The laws of Manu

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

James Oppenheim

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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 a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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.