Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

- Storm Jameson

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proust, Marcel

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Zee, James Van Der

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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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Stein, Ben

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Nielsen, A.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.