Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Alcott, Louisa May

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Freud, Sigmund

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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 small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Lao-Tzu

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert