Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

- Feather, William

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

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

Chuck Sigars

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Democritus

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Greene, Graham

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Herold, Don

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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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

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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.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte