Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

John Berry

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Bob Newhart

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh