Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

- Ginott, Haim

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Wilde, Oscar

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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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

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

George Burns

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De