Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

- Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Beckett, Samuel

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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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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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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 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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Democritus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George