Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

- Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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''

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Epicurus

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

33.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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