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Happiness

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



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

2.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Mill, John Stuart

3.
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Byron, Lord

4.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Lane, Rose Wilder

5.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies

6.
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

7.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Koenig, Frederick

8.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Anderson, Greg

9.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Johnson, Samuel

10.
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

11.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu

12.
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

13.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De

14.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Goldsmith, Oliver

16.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

17.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

18.
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham

19.
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

20.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

21.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Young, Margaret

22.
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

23.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
Yeats, William Butler

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.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Landor, Walter Savage

26.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Barthel, Mildred

27.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Porter, Jane

29.
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

30.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Maurier, Daphne Du

31.
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.
Jonathan Haidt

32.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Yeats, William Butler

33.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Proverb, Scottish

34.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Russell, Bertrand

35.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
Johnson, Samuel

36.
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

37.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Santayana, George

38.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
Orwell, George

39.
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself
Zee, James Van Der

40.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Bradley, Amanda

41.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

42.
Joy comes from using your potential.
Schultz, Will

43.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

44.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
Lucas, E. V.

45.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Solon

46.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Jerrold, Douglas William

47.
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Landor, Walter Savage

48.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

49.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

50.
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
Proverb, Spanish


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