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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

10.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

11.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

12.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

15.

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

Lucian

16.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

21.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

22.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

24.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

40.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

41.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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