Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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 must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

William Cowper

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Levant

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

Nash, Ogden

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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.