Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Stossel, John

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Farrall, Joseph

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Camus, Albert

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

Prutz

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bono, Edward De

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Proust, Marcel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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 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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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