Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Lao-tzu

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

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Burns

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

10.

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

14.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Sokoloff, Boris

28.

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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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

Zee, James Van Der

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Oscar Levant

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Democritus

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.