Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Fountain., John

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Kennedy, John F.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Oscar Levant

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Dalai Lama

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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