Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Levenson, Samuel

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Hesse, Hermann

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 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

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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 is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart