Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Anderson, Greg

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Oscar Levant

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

Nielsen, A.

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Al Batt

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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, 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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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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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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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 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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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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