Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Nash, Ogden

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

Camus, Albert

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Democritus

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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