Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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 good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Robert Frost

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Orwell, George

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Maxwell, William

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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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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.

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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