Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Diderot, Denis

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

J.K. Rowling

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

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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Lao-tzu

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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

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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

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

25.

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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

42.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oscar Levant

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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