Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- C. P. Snow

Best Quotes about Happiness

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

John Berry

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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Democritus

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

Goodman, Roy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Heywood, John

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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