Quotes about happiness

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

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness   

"The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience."

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness   

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

Marquis, Don on happiness   

"Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."

Mason, John L. on happiness
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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 on happiness   

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

Maxwell, William on happiness   

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

Meltzer, Bernard on happiness
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"Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize."

Meredith, Owen on happiness   

"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."

Meynell, Alice on happiness   

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

Mill, John Stuart on happiness   

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

Mill, John Stuart on happiness   

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."

Millman, Dan on happiness
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"The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on happiness   

"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness   

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness   

"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 on happiness
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"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 on happiness   

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on happiness   

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

Muller, Max on happiness   

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

Munro, Hector Hugh on happiness   

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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 on happiness   

"Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe."

Muriel, James on happiness   

"What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement."

Nash, Fay B. on happiness   

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

Nash, Ogden on happiness
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"Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others."

Nielsen, A. on happiness   

"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"

Oliphant, Margaret on happiness   

"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."

O'Malley, Austin on happiness   

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on happiness
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"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness"

Orwell, George on happiness
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"Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy."

Palmer, Gretta Brooker on happiness   

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

Peale, Norman Vincent on happiness   

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

Pepys, Samuel on happiness   

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

Peterson, Wilferd A. on happiness   

"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart on happiness   

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."

Phelps, William Lyon on happiness
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"The happier the moment the shorter."

Pliny The Elder on happiness   

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

Plutarch on happiness   

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

Pope, Alexander on happiness   

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

Pope, Alexander on happiness   

"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."

Porter, Jane on happiness