Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

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

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Nash, Ogden

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

23.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Chuck Sigars

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Ayn Rand

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

Camus, Albert

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Herold, Don

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Byron, Lord

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