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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Ayn Rand
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

2.
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.

3.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley

4.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Beckett, Samuel

5.
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
Buchan, John

6.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
Harrigan, John

7.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

9.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Jefferson, Thomas

10.
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Bentham, Jeremy

11.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Keyes Jr., Ken

12.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
Stossel, John

13.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

14.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

15.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Ziglar, Zig

16.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
Camus, Albert

17.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

18.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Jung, Carl

19.
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

20.
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.
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

22.
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Proverb, Chinese

23.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Fielding, Henry

24.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Chalmers, Allan K.

25.
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

26.
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
Horton, Doug

27.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
Orwell, George

28.
After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

29.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

30.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

31.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Maurier, Daphne Du

32.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.
Hume, David

33.
Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Diderot, Denis

34.
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Thoreau, Henry David

35.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

36.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
Greene, Graham

37.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Levenson, Samuel

38.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

39.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

40.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle

41.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Jefferson, Thomas

42.
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

43.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Montesquieu, Charles De

44.
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

45.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

46.
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

47.
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
Fountain., John

48.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.
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

50.
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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