Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Stein, Ben

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Fountain., John

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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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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

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Stossel, John

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.