Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Happiness

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Ayn Rand

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

Prutz

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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 is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Kin Hubbard

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

John Berry

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lao-tzu

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Saroyan, William

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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