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

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chuck Sigars

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, 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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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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

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

Democritus

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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.

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne