Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Greene, Graham

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Lao-tzu

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

John Berry

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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

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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 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 creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.