Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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.

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

Camus, Albert

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cloete, Stuart

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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 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

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese