Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bono, Edward De

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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 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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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Murdoch, Iris

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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 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

23.

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

Herold, Don

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Orwell, George

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

Rooney, Andy

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

William Cowper

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

David Assael