Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Robert Frost

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Lucian

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

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Camus, Albert

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick