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

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

John Berry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Robert Frost

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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.

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

Roy M. Goodman

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Feather, William

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

Ketchel, Holly

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul