Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Freud, Sigmund

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.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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

Lao-tzu

11.

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

Confucius

12.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

17.

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

Storm Jameson

18.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

19.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

20.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

21.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

22.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

23.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

24.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

25.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

27.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

28.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

32.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

37.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

John Berry

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.