Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

- Bradley, Amanda

Best Quotes about Happiness

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

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

Bono, Edward De

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Camus, Albert

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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 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 is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

George Burns

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

Oscar Levant

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Fielding, Henry