Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- James Oppenheim

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Farrall, Joseph

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Lucian

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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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 lies first of all in health.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

21.

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

Storm Jameson

22.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

27.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

28.

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

J.K. Rowling

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Prazlin, Duchess

32.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Feather, William

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

37.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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''

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob