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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
- Heywood, John
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
Twain, Mark

2.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Bono, Edward De

3.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

4.
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Horton, Doug

5.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

6.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De

7.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Richter, Jean Paul

8.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
Stossel, John

9.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Maslow, Abraham H.

10.
Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
Hesse, Hermann

11.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Russell, Bertrand

12.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

13.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Barrie, Sir James M.

14.
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

15.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Hume, David

16.
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

17.
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley

18.
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

19.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.
Greene, Graham

20.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

21.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Meredith, Owen

23.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

24.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.
I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
King, Coretta Scott

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

30.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

31.
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
Proverb, English

32.
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

33.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

34.
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.

35.
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

36.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Burroughs, John

37.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Heywood, John

38.
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

39.
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates

40.
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
Sweetland, Ben

41.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

42.
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
Lucian

43.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Aristotle

45.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
Greene, Graham

46.
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

47.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Millman, Dan

48.
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

49.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

50.
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe


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