Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

John Berry

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Bob Newhart

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques