Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Orwell, George

11.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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

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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 is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Mason, John L.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lao-tzu

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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 something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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