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

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

C. P. Snow

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

Garrison, Theodosia

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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 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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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

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis