Motivational Quotes

Happiness

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Democritus

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Herold, Don

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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