Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

John Berry

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

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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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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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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Russell, Bertrand