Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

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

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lucian

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Buchan, John

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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

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.