Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Prutz

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns