Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

- Wolfe, W, Beran

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Kin Hubbard

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Proust, Marcel

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Stein, Ben

28.

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.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Christopher Morley

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.