Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proust, Marcel

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Diderot, Denis

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

John Berry

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Spencer, Herbert

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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

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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

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

43.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Herold, Don

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Christopher Morley

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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