Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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 the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Oscar Levant

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Josh Billings

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Robert Frost

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.