Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Robert Frost

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Feather, William

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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For who is pleased with himself.