Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Feather, William

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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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 something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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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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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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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Nielsen, A.

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John