Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

David Assael

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

John Berry

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

Fountain., John

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

Bob Newhart

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Goodman, Roy

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord