Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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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 time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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''

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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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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

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

William Cowper

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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