Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Johnson, Samuel

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

John Berry

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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 not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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