Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

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

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Maxwell, William

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Bob Newhart

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Mason, John L.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

David Assael

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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 a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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