Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Boone, Daniel

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

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

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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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.

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage