Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

- Chuang Tzu

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

John Berry

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

11.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

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

Al Batt

17.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

18.

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

19.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

21.

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

22.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

23.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

24.

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

25.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

26.

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

Farrall, Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

Prevert, Jacques

29.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

31.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

32.

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

33.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

34.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

35.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

39.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Oscar Levant

44.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

45.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

46.

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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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.

48.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

49.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hesse, Hermann