Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

11.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

13.

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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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 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

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Muller, Max

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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 is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William