Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hesse, Hermann

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Dalai Lama

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

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Nicole Kidman

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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 is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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