Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Boone, Daniel

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goodman, Roy

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Oscar Levant

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jean Houston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Proverb, Scottish