Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Muller, Max

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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

John Berry

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Herold, Don

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

49.

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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von