Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Al Batt

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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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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Josh Billings

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

Feather, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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 thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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