Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lucian

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

Epicurus

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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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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

14.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.