Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- The laws of Manu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Meltzer, Bernard

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Feather, William

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

William Cowper

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

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

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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.

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel