Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Nielsen, A.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Stein, Ben

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

Byron, Lord

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

William Cowper

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will