Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Fielding, Henry

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Christopher Morley

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.