Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hesse, Hermann

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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

25.

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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.