Motivational Quotes

Happiness

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

- Chalmers, Allan K.

Best Quotes about Happiness

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saroyan, William

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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 does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel