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

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Epictetus

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Muller, Max

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

Oprah Winfrey

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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

Bono, Edward De

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Democritus

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

William Cowper

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Chuck Sigars

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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