Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

- Tillotson, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Storm Jameson

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kennedy, John F.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Nash, Ogden

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Mason, John L.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jean Houston

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt