Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Byron, Lord

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Boone, Daniel

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Fielding, Henry

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Meltzer, Bernard