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 thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Lao-Tzu

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Boone, Daniel

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh