Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

- Nicole Kidman

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

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Waitley, Denis

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda