Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Happiness

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Dyer, Wayne

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lucian

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Fielding, Henry

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

David Assael

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen