Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

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

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

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Horton, Doug

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Hesse, Hermann

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Lucian

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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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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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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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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 is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Nash, Ogden

43.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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 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

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand