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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

George Burns

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Mason, John L.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Boone, Daniel

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Meredith, Owen

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Szasz, Thomas