Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

James Oppenheim

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Jeans, Sir James

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lao-tzu

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William