Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Feather, William

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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 am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.