Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

- Boyd, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Wilde, Oscar

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Christopher Morley

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Bono, Edward De

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

43.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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