Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Heywood, John

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Chuck Sigars

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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 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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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