Motivational Quotes

Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Democritus

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

William Cowper

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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 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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goodman, Roy

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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 is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy