Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

- Buchan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

James Oppenheim

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Feather, William

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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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 not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick