Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

- Lucas, E. V.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bob Newhart

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Feather, William

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, 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... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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