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Happiness

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
Tillotson, John

2.
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
Proverb, Spanish

3.
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

4.
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

5.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Waitley, Denis

6.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

7.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Jackson, Holbrook

8.
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

9.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Jerrold, Douglas William

10.
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

11.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Prazlin, Duchess

12.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Fielding, Henry

14.
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.
Prutz

15.
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
Boyd, William

16.
We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu, Charles De

17.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Szasz, Thomas

18.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.
Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Sokoloff, Boris

20.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Horton, Doug

21.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Russell, Bertrand

22.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Chopra, Deepak

23.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Saroyan, William

24.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
Heatter, Gabriel

25.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
Heinlein, Robert

26.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.
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

29.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Johnson, Samuel

30.
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

31.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

32.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Hazlitt, William

33.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
Yeats, William Butler

34.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Solon

35.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

36.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

38.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Yeats, William Butler

39.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
James, William

40.
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Zimbler, Adam

41.
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

42.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

43.
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

44.
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
Meg Cabot

45.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Addison, Joseph

46.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

48.
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

49.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Dumas, Alexandre

50.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus


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