Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Fountain., John

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Herold, Don

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Bono, Edward De

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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.

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.