Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Camus, Albert

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Lao-tzu

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

David Assael

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

Clyde, R.D.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.