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 is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Rohn, Jim

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow