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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Boone, Daniel

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

12.

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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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 the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

15.

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 is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

18.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Lucian

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

28.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Robert Frost

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

35.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.