Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

- Farrall, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

25.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.