Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Nash, Ogden

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Prutz

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lao-tzu

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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 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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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