Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Herold, Don

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Camus, Albert

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman