Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Kin Hubbard

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

10.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Solon

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Dalai Lama

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

Herold, Don

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Stossel, John

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben