Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Buchan, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Chuck Sigars

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

12.

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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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 tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

45.

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

George Burns

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard