Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Ayn Rand

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

Dyer, Wayne

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

Downs, Hugh

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Cowper

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

Camus, Albert

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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.

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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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda