Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

William Cowper

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Josh Billings

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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 continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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

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

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

Nielsen, A.

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Feather, William

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The happier the moment the shorter.