Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Stossel, John

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horace

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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