Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Democritus

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt