Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Happiness

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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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 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 is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

David Assael

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.