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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Camus, Albert

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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.

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

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.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horton, Doug

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Mason, John L.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Proust, Marcel

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

John Berry

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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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)