Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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''

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

32.

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu