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

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Proverb, Spanish

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Nash, Ogden

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

10.

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

11.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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 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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

29.

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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

32.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lao-tzu

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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