Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

- Schultz, Will

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Stein, Ben

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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 longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel