Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Robert Frost

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

Josh Billings

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Bono, Edward De

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen