Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

25.

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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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Aristotle

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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