Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Beckett, Samuel

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Saroyan, William

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

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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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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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

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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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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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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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