Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Josh Billings

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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Byron, Lord

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nielsen, A.

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mason, John L.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.