Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

William Cowper

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Horton, Doug

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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