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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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.

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

John Berry

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

James Oppenheim

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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

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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

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

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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