Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

- Heatter, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Cloete, Stuart

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goodman, Roy

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Christopher Morley

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Confucius

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 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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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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 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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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De