Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

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

Diderot, Denis

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Proust, Marcel

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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 not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Herold, Don

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Muller, Max

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Horton, Doug

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

Clyde, R.D.

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