Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Saroyan, William

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Geneen, Harold S.