Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Goodman, Roy

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

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dalai Lama

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

George Burns

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

Stein, Ben

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.