Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

- Dewey, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Byron, Lord

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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 experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Camus, Albert

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Herold, Don

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz