Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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 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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Meredith, Owen

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.