Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Nicole Kidman

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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Benjamin Franklin

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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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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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 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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

John Berry

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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