Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Billings, Josh

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stein, Ben

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Jean Houston

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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