Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Christopher Morley

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

Boone, Daniel

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Robert Frost

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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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 resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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