Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Happiness

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

William Cowper

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

Christopher Morley

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lao-tzu

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.