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

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dumas, Alexandre

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Richter, Jean Paul

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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 a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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 unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuck Sigars

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

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!