Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Stossel, John

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

15.

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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

18.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

22.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Herold, Don

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

38.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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