Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Stossel, John

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Prutz

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.