Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Herold, Don

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Oscar Levant

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen