Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Camus, Albert

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Robert Frost

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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... 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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Feather, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand