Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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 is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

J.K. Rowling

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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