Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Storm Jameson

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stossel, John

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

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

Proust, Marcel

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.