Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Meredith, Owen

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

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

Jean Houston

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

George Burns

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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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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

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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

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Oscar Levant

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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