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Happiness

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
- Shaw, George Bernard
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Richter, Jean Paul

2.
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
Tillotson, John

3.
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham

4.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Hope, Bob

5.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Traherne, Thomas

6.
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

7.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Proverb, Scottish

8.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

9.
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

10.
Happiness is activity.
Aristotle

11.
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

12.
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
Garrison, Theodosia

13.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Brande, Dorothea

14.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

15.
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David Assael

16.
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

17.
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Russell, Bertrand

19.
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

20.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
Johnson, Samuel

21.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
Camus, Albert

22.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Barrie, Sir James M.

23.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

24.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Boone, Daniel

25.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Hume, David

26.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Nash, Ogden

27.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
O'Malley, Austin

28.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Angelis, Barbara De

29.
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

30.
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

31.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Maslow, Abraham H.

32.
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

33.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Smith, Adam

34.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Montesquieu, Charles De

35.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

36.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Ziglar, Zig

37.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

38.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

39.
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
Fountain., John

40.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Chuck Sigars

41.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Koenig, Frederick

42.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Bradley, Amanda

43.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Chopra, Deepak

44.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De

45.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

46.
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

47.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Waitley, Denis

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
Sweetland, Ben


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