Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Waitley, Denis

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Kin Hubbard

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

David Assael

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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.