Motivational Quotes

Happiness

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Jean Houston

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don