Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

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

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Billings, Josh

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

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Herold, Don

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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 is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Abraham Lincoln

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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, 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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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