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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Byron, Lord

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

10.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

13.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

14.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

18.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

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

William Cowper

20.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Nielsen, A.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

27.

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

Prevert, Jacques

28.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

29.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

30.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

31.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

36.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

37.

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

38.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

39.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

44.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

45.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

46.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.