Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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 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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Nielsen, A.

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Stossel, John

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Muller, Max

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lao-tzu

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De