Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Best Quotes about Happiness

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Maxwell, William

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Saroyan, William

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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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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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 a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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 not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Byron, Lord

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.