Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Horton, Doug

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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.

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

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

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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

11.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

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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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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

38.

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

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Saroyan, William

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu