Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Maxwell, William

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

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Muller, Max

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

William Cowper

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Byron, Lord

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Lao-tzu

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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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.