Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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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 all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Greene, Graham

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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

Nicole Kidman

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Alda, Alan

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Rohn, Jim