Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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)

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Robert Frost

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Levant

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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 is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

John Berry

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

David Assael

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

Democritus

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Orwell, George

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.