Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ayn Rand

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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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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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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

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Meredith, Owen

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Lao-tzu

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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 is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns