Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Fielding, Henry

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Fountain., John

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Jean Houston

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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