Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Jean Houston

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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 is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.