Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Democritus

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Byron, Lord

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Seneca

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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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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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

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness seems made to be shared.