Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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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

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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 conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Fountain., John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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''

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Solon

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Fichte, Johann G.