Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Christopher Morley

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

Bentham, Jeremy

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Oscar Levant

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Robert Frost

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Rooney, Andy

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Kin Hubbard