Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is something to do.

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

William Cowper

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Fountain., John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stossel, John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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