Motivational Quotes

Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about 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

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Saroyan, William

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Cloete, Stuart

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Muller, Max

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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 a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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