Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

11.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

14.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Camus, Albert

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

Fountain., John

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Rooney, Andy

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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