Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Feather, William

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Mason, John L.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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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 must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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