Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Storm Jameson

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

George Burns

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Oscar Levant

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Stein, Ben

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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

35.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo