Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Happiness

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Chuck Sigars

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

32.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Al Batt

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.