Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Stossel, John

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hoffer, Eric

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

33.

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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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)

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret