Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Dalai Lama

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

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Oscar Levant

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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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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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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