Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

- Garrison, Theodosia

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Greene, Graham

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Feather, William

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Democritus

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.