Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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''

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

David Assael

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Byron, Lord

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Dalai Lama

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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 destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)