Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Bob Newhart

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Democritus

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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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

John Berry

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Billings, Josh

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.