Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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

Robert Frost

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Maxwell, William

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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 a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Storm Jameson

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

John Berry

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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

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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 like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Greene, Graham

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.