Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- C. P. Snow

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Feather, William

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Herold, Don

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Lucian

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Democritus

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

William Cowper

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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