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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Proust, Marcel

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Goodman, Roy

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Nicole Kidman

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim