Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Mason, John L.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Greene, Graham

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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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 greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor