Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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)

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

Prutz

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Camus, Albert

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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

Jean Houston

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Bob Newhart

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Robert Frost