Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Marden, Orison Swett

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hoffer, Eric

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lao-tzu

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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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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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Lao-Tzu

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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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