Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Jeans, Sir James

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Lao-Tzu

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dalai Lama

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William