Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Johnson, Samuel

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Prutz

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

39.

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

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Robert Frost

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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