Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

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

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Byron, Lord

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Al Batt

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Nielsen, A.

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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