Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Muller, Max

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Jean Houston

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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 is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

George Burns

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Rooney, Andy

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Stossel, John

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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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