Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

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

Lucian

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bono, Edward De

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Oscar Levant

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Saroyan, William