Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Oscar Levant

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

Chuck Sigars

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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

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Lao-tzu

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

30.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

John Berry

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jean Houston

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.