Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- The laws of Manu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Herold, Don

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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 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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Camus, Albert

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

David Assael

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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.

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey