Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Saroyan, William

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Hoffer, Eric

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Chuck Sigars

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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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

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William