Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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 conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Chuck Sigars

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

John Berry

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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