Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Byron, Lord

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

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

33.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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