Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Proust, Marcel

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Storm Jameson

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

11.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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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

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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