Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spencer, Herbert

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Huxley, Aldous

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horton, Doug

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Herold, Don

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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 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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Richter, Jean Paul