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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Nielsen, A.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Maxwell, William

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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.

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lao-Tzu

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Stein, Ben

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Chuck Sigars

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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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Freud, Sigmund