Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Landor, Walter Savage

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Hesse, Hermann

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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 conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Chuck Sigars

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William