Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Jonathan Haidt

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

Chambers, Oswald

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Anderson, Greg

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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

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

Jean Houston

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proust, Marcel

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.