Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

16.

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

17.

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

Camus, Albert

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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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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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

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Addison, Joseph

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Muller, Max