Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

- Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

Best Quotes about Happiness

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Camus, Albert

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

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Stossel, John

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

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

10.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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)

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

C. P. Snow

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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

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

David Assael

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Prutz

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

Byron, Lord

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

32.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

38.

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

39.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Nash, Ogden

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

49.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

50.

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