Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

- Watson, Lilian Eichler

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Farrall, Joseph

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Feather, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horton, Doug

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Clyde, R.D.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Chuck Sigars

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

William Cowper

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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