Motivational Quotes

Happiness

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Happiness

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Mason, John L.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Christopher Morley

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Fountain., John

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

James Oppenheim

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

Democritus

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Meredith, Owen