Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

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

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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

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

Robert Frost

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Fountain., John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran