Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bono, Edward De

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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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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 biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Muller, Max

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard