Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

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

27.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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 best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Cowper

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu