Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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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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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Camus, Albert

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Alda, Alan

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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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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

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Maxwell, William

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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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

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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