Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

- Rooney, Andy

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

C. P. Snow

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)

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

Millman, Dan

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Goodman, Roy

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas Szasz

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Stein, Ben

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fountain., John

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.