Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mason, John L.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Stossel, John

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

Goodman, Roy

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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