Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

David Assael

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

10.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

11.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

12.

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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

14.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

15.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

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

20.

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

Lucian

21.

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

Mill, John Stuart

22.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

25.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

26.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

27.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

28.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

29.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

30.

Twain, Mark

31.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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

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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

40.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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

42.

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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

44.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

45.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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