Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Democritus

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Lao-tzu

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Confucius

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Robert Frost

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roy M. Goodman

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Horton, Doug

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.