Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Dalai Lama

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Camus, Albert

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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