Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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 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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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

James Oppenheim

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Rooney, Andy

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.