Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Diderot, Denis

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Farrall, Joseph

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Oscar Levant

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Nicole Kidman

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

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim