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

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lao-tzu

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Chuck Sigars

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Farrall, Joseph

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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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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

George Burns

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Smith, Adam

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Joy comes from using your potential.