Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

Horace

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

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

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.

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

Solon

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

John Berry

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Herold, Don

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

Stein, Ben

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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''

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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 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 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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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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 is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob