Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jeans, Sir James

Best Quotes about Happiness

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Christopher Morley

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

17.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Horton, Doug

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Maxwell, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Nash, Ogden

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

48.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness