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

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

Greene, Graham

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

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

Chuck Sigars

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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 secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Robert Frost

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.