Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lucian

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

Epictetus

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

J.K. Rowling

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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Democritus

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

10.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Stossel, John

14.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Fountain., John

16.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

19.

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 something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

21.

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

Feather, William

22.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

25.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

28.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

29.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

30.

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

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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

32.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

33.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

38.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 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

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Oliphant, Margaret