Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

William Cowper

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

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

20.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Storm Jameson

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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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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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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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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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Stein, Ben

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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

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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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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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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

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand