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Happiness

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
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Fielding, Henry

2.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
Herold, Don

3.
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

4.
If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

5.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

6.
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

7.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
Edwards, Tryon

8.
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

9.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

11.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Saroyan, William

12.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Horton, Doug

13.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

15.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

16.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

17.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
Sarnoff, David

18.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Jackson, Holbrook

19.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

20.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

21.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

22.
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

23.
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

24.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Peale, Norman Vincent

25.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Santayana, George

26.
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

27.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

28.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Levenson, Samuel

29.
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

30.
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

31.
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
Erikson, Erik H.

32.
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Cloete, Stuart

33.
Happiness is a positive cash flow.
Adler, Fred

34.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson

35.
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

36.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Kundera, Milan

38.
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
Horton, Doug

39.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
Colton, Charles Caleb

40.
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

41.
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Bentham, Jeremy

42.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu

43.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

44.
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

45.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

46.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Feather, William

47.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

48.
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.
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

50.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De


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