Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Prevert, Jacques

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Democritus

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Millman, Dan

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Levenson, Samuel

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.