Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Billings, Josh

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Orwell, George

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Democritus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Bob Newhart

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Proust, Marcel

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

William Cowper

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

Feather, William

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

Stossel, John

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Prutz

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis