Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Happiness

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nicole Kidman

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

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.

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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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

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greene, Graham

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.