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

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

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

Camus, Albert

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Jeans, Sir James

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Levenson, Samuel

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

George Burns

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.