Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dyer, Wayne

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Bono, Edward De

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

John Berry

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

Byron, Lord

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.