Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Prevert, Jacques

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Herold, Don

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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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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 a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy