Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

- Jonathan Haidt

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Christopher Morley

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mason, John L.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

John Berry

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama