Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Oprah Winfrey

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nash, Ogden

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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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 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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Feather, William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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