Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bob Newhart

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Herold, Don

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Buchan, John

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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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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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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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