Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

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

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Proust, Marcel

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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 biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

John Berry

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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.

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

Nielsen, A.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.