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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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 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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Epictetus

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.