Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Confucius

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max