Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Prevert, Jacques

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Roy M. Goodman