Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Democritus

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

Oscar Levant

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Roy M. Goodman

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lao-tzu

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

Oprah Winfrey

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Prutz

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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