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

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Robert Frost

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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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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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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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Camus, Albert

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

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.