Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Ayn Rand

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Waitley, Denis

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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