Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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 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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Josh Billings

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Democritus

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Lao-tzu

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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 is the longing for repetition.