Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

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

George Burns

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Robert Frost

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Ayn Rand

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

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

21.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Solon

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Herold, Don

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.