Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The laws of Manu

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

Lucian

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Herold, Don

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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

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ketchel, Holly

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mason, John L.

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Carlyle, Thomas

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness