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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

15.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

16.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

17.

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

19.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

22.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

23.

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.

24.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

25.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

26.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

27.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

28.

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

Lao-tzu

29.

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

Greene, Graham

30.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

33.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

34.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

35.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

36.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

40.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

41.

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

Farrall, Joseph

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

43.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

44.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

46.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

47.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

48.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

50.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.