Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

J.K. Rowling

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

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Democritus

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cloete, Stuart

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug