Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Heywood, John

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Democritus

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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''

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Herold, Don

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Nash, Ogden

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

40.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.