Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Rooney, Andy

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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Stein, Ben

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm