Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

- Adler, Fred

Best Quotes about Happiness

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Camus, Albert

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kin Hubbard

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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 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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Feather, William

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Chuck Sigars

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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