Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Lao-tzu

10.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

14.

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

15.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

18.

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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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Horton, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Epictetus

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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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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 is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.