Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Brande, Dorothea

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

11.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

David Assael

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Dalai Lama

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

49.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur