Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Dalai Lama

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

Goodman, Roy

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chuck Sigars

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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