Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Muller, Max

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

Stein, Ben

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Kin Hubbard

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Russell, Bertrand

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Camus, Albert

11.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lucian

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

John Berry

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

James Oppenheim

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Fountain., John