Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Lucian

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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