Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

29.

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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Diderot, Denis

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Greene, Graham

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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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.

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

John Berry

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus